Epidemiology of opioid use in pregnancy

JL Cook - Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The world has been experiencing an opioid epidemic for over 20 years, and rates of use and
overdose among women, including during pregnancy, have risen markedly. Women receive …

Passive Addiction and Teratogenic Effects

CC McPherson, TE Inder, JJ Volpe - Volpe's Neurology of the Newborn, 2025 - Elsevier
Drugs can exert major effects on the developing central nervous system. In the broadest
sense, drugs may disturb specific developmental events in the brain and, in turn, produce …