Drugs and Child Maltreatment

• Main Authors: Joyce, David A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Winterton, Peter M. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
• Subjects: Well-being.; Children.; Public health.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Child Well-being.; Public Health.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

This book combines experience in child protection with expertise in clinical pharmacology and forensic toxicology, to set out a broad contemporary understanding of child maltreatment with drugs. It explores presentations that range through ante-natal exposure, factitious illness, deliberate poisonin...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The child harmed with drugs
• 2. Identifying the drug
• 3. The clinical presentations
• 4. Social and family context and its relevance to child maltreatment through drugs
• 5. Child protection after a diagnosis of maltreatment through drugs
• 6. Laboratory Testing for Drug Exposure
• 7. Conclusions
• 8. References.