Guidelines for the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy

These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder. They have been dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Health Organization Management of Substance Abuse Team
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization 2014, [2014]
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder. They have been developed in response to requests from organizations, institutions and individuals for technical guidance on the identification and management of alcohol and other substance use and substance use disorders in pregnant women, with the target of healthy outcomes for both pregnant and their fetus or infant
Item Description:Title from PDF title page. - "Produced by the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (Management of Substance Abuse unit), in collaboration with the WHO Management of Noncommunicable Diseases Department (MND) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS)"--Acknowledgement
Physical Description:1 PDF file (204 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9789241548731