Congenital narcotic addiction

Congenital narcotic addiction.

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Narcotic Addiction in Britain and America

Drug addiction in the U.S.A., in comparison with this country, remains a major ^ealth problem. Various theories have been postulated over the years to explain this difference, and Dr. Schur, in his book, has endeavoured to compare and contrast the tfect which varying administrative measures have had on the fate of the drug addict. puring a two-year research period in the U.K., he made a thoroug...

Narcotic addiction: the expectant mother and her baby.

In a retrospective study of the period 1982-1985, the records of 29 narcotic-addicted mothers and their 42 babies were reviewed. All mothers were from socially deprived backgrounds, had a poor record of ante-natal attendance and had frequent admissions to hospital. Thirteen mothers had a past history of hepatitis B and four were HBsAg positive. The babies had significantly lower mean gestationa...

Two Patterns of Narcotic Drug Addiction in the United States

Creating the American junkie: addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control

tragedy and the discovery of teratogens, the legalization of abortion, and growing attention to the problems of women's alcoholism following the women's liberation movement. This volume amply lives up to its aim of exploring the intertwined relations between child health and society from the late nineteenth century to the present. It forms a significant contribution to the history of medicine a...