Crack babies and the Constitution: ruminations about addicted pregnant women after Ferguson v. City of Charleston.

Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)

The US Supreme Court case Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001) established that public hospitals couldn't legally drug test pregnant women without their consent when those women sought prenatal care at those hospitals. The court held that such searches violated the pregnant women's protections under the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. The decisions also indicated those circumstances t...

Pregnancy, drug testing, and the fourth amendment: legal and behavioral implications.

In its efforts to protect the health of unborn children, the government is increasingly attempting to regulate pregnant women's conduct. As with other policies affecting pregnant women's autonomy, these policies have constitutional overtones. In Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001), the Supreme Court struck down a South Carolina hospital's policy of testing pregnant women for cocaine and turni...

A feminist Fourth Amendment?: Consent, care, privacy, and social meaning in Ferguson v. City of Charleston.

The Qualitative Study on the Quality of Life of Volunteered Addicted Women in Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Centers of Isfahan City

The aim of the current research was a qualitative study of the quality of life of addicted women in Isfahan city. The type of this qualitative study was contents analysis and data was evaluated through Braun and Clark’s (2006) six-phase thematic analysis process. The statistical population of the study was all addicted women in addiction withdrawal centers in Isfahan city in 2018 and 17 persons...

عوارض پری ناتال سوء مصرف مواد در طی بارداری

  Background: Substance abuse is a major public health issue in all over the world. The types and ingredients of drugs used in our country are different from other countries. The study was conducted to determine relationship between substance abuse during pregnancy, and perinatal complications in Iran.   Methods: A retrospective cohort study was carried out over a 6 years period on all the subs...