Substance-exposed newborns: Hospital and child protection responses

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1503-1519

  Drescher Burke, Krista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CAPTA; Child protective response; Substance exposed newborns

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748978809     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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