Assessment of exposure to opiates and cocaine during pregnancy in a Mediterranean city: Preliminary results of the "Meconium Project"

Forensic Science International

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-65

  Pichini, Simona ^a   Puig, Carme ^b,c   Zuccaro, Piergiorgio ^a   Marchei, Emilia ^a   Pellegrini, Manuela ^a   Murillo, Janeth ^b,c   Vall, Oriol ^b,c   Pacifici, Roberta ^a   García Algar, Óscar ^b,c  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birth outcomes; Cocaine; Drugs of abuse; Fetal exposure; Meconium; Opiates

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ARECOLINE; COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG; MORPHINE 6 ACETATE; OPIATE;

ABORTION; BETEL NUT; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS RISK; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANTILE HYPOTONIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECONIUM; OPIATE ADDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 22444451297     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2005.04.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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