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Maternal and obstetric effects of prenatal drug exposure

R Bishai1, G Koren

  • 1Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Women addicted to recreational drugs are at a higher risk for a variety of obstetrical complications that may increase perinatal morbidity for mother and child. Because most of these women consume more than one recreational drug and are found to have a clustering of other psychosocial risk factors such as poverty and single motherhood, attention should be given to the complexity of all risks involved.

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