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Substance use during pregnancy: time for policy to catch up with research

Overview of attention for article published in Harm Reduction Journal, April 2004
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Title
Substance use during pregnancy: time for policy to catch up with research
Published in
Harm Reduction Journal, April 2004
DOI 10.1186/1477-7517-1-5
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Authors

Barry M Lester, Lynne Andreozzi, Lindsey Appiah

Abstract

The phenomenon of substance abuse during pregnancy has fostered much controversy, specifically regarding treatment vs. punishment. Should the pregnant mother who engages in substance abuse be viewed as a criminal or as someone suffering from an illness requiring appropriate treatment? As it happens, there is a noticeably wide range of responses to this matter in the various states of the United States, ranging from a strictly criminal perspective to one that does emphasize the importance of the mother's treatment. This diversity of dramatically different responses illustrates the failure to establish a uniform policy for the management of this phenomenon. Just as there is lack of consensus among those who favor punishment, the same lack of consensus characterizes those states espousing treatment. Several general policy recommendations are offered here addressing the critical issues. It is hoped that by focusing on these fundamental issues and ultimately detailing statistics, policymakers throughout the United States will consider the course of action that views both pregnant mother and fetus/child as humanely as possible.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 191 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 16%
Researcher 30 15%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Student > Master 21 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 9%
Other 38 19%
Unknown 37 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 19%
Social Sciences 33 17%
Psychology 25 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 3%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 48 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 November 2017.
All research outputs
#4,353,540
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#578
of 1,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,192
of 62,154 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#2
of 3 outputs
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