National clinical guidelines for the management of drug use during pregnancy, birth and the early development years of the newborn (2006)

Description

These guidelines are intended for use by all health care practitioners working with pregnant women experiencing a drug or alcohol use problem, particularly drug dependency, but including other drug uses such as bingeing.

Those practitioners include (but are not limited to) general practitioners, midwives, obstetricians, paediatricians, nurses, early childhood workers, lactation consultants, dieticians, social workers, drug and alcohol specialist doctors, drug and alcohol workers, Aboriginal Health Workers, accident and emergency staff, psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health workers. Child protection workers and probation and parole officers will also find the guidelines helpful.

NSW Department of Health abstract

Links

• View report: National clinical guidelines for the management of drug use during pregnancy, birth and the early development years of the newborn
• View report: National clinical guidelines for the management of drug use during pregnancy, birth and the early development years of the newborn (PDF - 1.1 MB)
• View website: National Drug Strategy
• View website: New South Wales Department of Health

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