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[Pregnancy and drug abuse: current situation and therapeutic strategies]
1Service du Professeur Milliez, Département de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris.
Drug abuse, a general public health problem, concerns a growing number of the pregnant women. Pregnancy in a drug addict is a high risk condition. The prevention of neonatal and pediatric complications involving both organic and psychological conditions, requires early individual medical, psychological and social support adapted to each pregnant addict. The risk for the mother and the fetus warrant prescription of substitution therapy during pregnancy. Published results concerning pregnancies in women on substitution therapy have been encouraging and clearly show a decrease in maternal and fetal complications. These studies are however difficult to conduct and carry a certain number of biases related to the social and economical context of the patients and also to the type of drug abuse (multiple drugs, drug combinations, psychostimulants, smoking, alcohol).
Drug abuse, a general public health problem, concerns a growing number of the pregnant women. Pregnancy in a drug addict is a high risk condition. The prevention of neonatal and pediatric complications involving both organic and psychological conditions, requires early individual medical, psychological and social support adapted to each pregnant addict. The risk for the mother and the fetus warrant prescription of substitution therapy during pregnancy. Published results concerning pregnancies in women on substitution therapy have been encouraging and clearly show a decrease in maternal and fetal complications. These studies are however difficult to conduct and carry a certain number of biases related to the social and economical context of the patients and also to the type of drug abuse (multiple drugs, drug combinations, psychostimulants, smoking, alcohol).