Children who face development risks due to maternal addiction during pregnancy require extra medical and psychosocial resources

Abstract

Children born to women with addictions during pregnancy faced a high risk of developmental problems and should be offered additional CHS resources to minimise negative long-term consequences.

Motivations to stop drug use from the perspective of women: a phenomenological study / Motivações de cessar o uso de drogas na perspectiva de mulheres: estudo fenomenológico

“…The child's abstinence symptoms at birth are manifested mainly by mothers' opioid substitution treatment and prescription drugs, to a lesser extent is neonatal abstinence related to the use of illicit drugs and alcohol in pregnancy. 15 The recognition of the cessation or reduction in drug use spontaneously and the receptivity to brief interventions by women are fundamental for pregnancy to be an opportunity to expand care to this population. 16 Therefore, pregnancy as a motivating project to cease drug use by women in treatment in CAPS AD II shows itself as a positive factor for both women and children during and after pregnancy, in the sense of promoting reflection on the use of drugs during pregnancy and also in the importance of conscious action of these women related to the continuity of care for their children.…”