Although the number of mothers with histories of drug addiction who are incarcerated has grown substantially in recent years, there is little information on their unique characteristics and vulnerability. Undertaken to address this issue, this study examined data on 167 incarcerated drug-abusing mothers from Baltimore City who had volunteered for a parenting program offered at a Maryland correc...

We examine the efficacy of a paraprofessional advocacy program for improving health and social outcomes of high-risk substance-abusing mothers and their children. This intervention included 3 years of home visitation, advocacy, and connection with appropriate community services. To assess the overall effectiveness of the model, clients were compared to concurrently enrolled controls on a compos...

Mothering and methadone can occur together with the right resources and support. Methadone mothers need to be seen in the context of their social risks and environment. Societal attitudes, social capital, and other contextual variables can be changed through policy. The purpose of this article is to describe the contextual risks experienced by drug abusing mothers in order to direct further res...

Forty-six of 139 first visit patients who attended the Drug Advisory and Treatment Centre in the Charitable infirmary with a problem of intravenous drug abuse, between May 1st 1979 and December 31st 1979, had liver biopsies carried out. Eight of these patients had chronic active hepatitis; these and 4 other abusers with chronic active, hepatitis who were attending the Department of Gastroentero...

Increased understanding of how the well-being of the fetus is affected by prenatal behavior has focused attention on the ethical issues surrounding fetuses. In this article the sources of societal disapproval of drug-abusing, pregnant women are explored, and the relationship between our moral judgments and public policies is discussed. In examining the nature of a pregnant woman’s obligation to...

OBJECTIVE Buprenophrine is a synthetic opioid with micro-agonist properties currently pending Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a maintenance agent for treating heroin-addicted individuals. Unlike methadone, a widely used opioid maintenance agent, buprenorphine is a kappa-receptor antagonist. Research linking the effects of acupuncture to the release of dynorphin, the endogenous li...

Twenty-three abusing couples were compared with a matched group of 23 non-abusing couples in terms of stress levels and factors that mediate their responses to stress. Parents who had physically abused their children were found to have significantly greater stress, but when compared with non-abusing couples under equally high stress, they also were much more likely to use violence as a socially...