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This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information, ranging from a historical perspective to current theories and practices related to affected women and their children. This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Addictive Diseases.

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This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information, ranging from a historical perspective to current theories and practices related to affected women and their children. This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Addictive Diseases.
Autorenporträt
Loretta P. Finnegan is President of Finnegan Consulting which addresses education, research, and treatment in issues relating to women's health and perinatal addiction. She is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in these fields and credited with the development of an assessment tool for neonatal opioid abstinence which is used widely in neonatal intensive care units in this country and abroad. Dr. Finnegan developed a landmark program which provided comprehensive services for drug dependent women and their children. She has lectured throughout the United States and in many international settings to disseminate her clinical and research knowledge in women's health and perinatal addiction. Stephen R. Kandall is the former Chief of Neonatology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has published over 70 articles and book chapters on perinatal addiction, authored a history of women and addiction in the United States, Substance and Shadow (Harvard University Press, 1996), lectured widely nationally and internationally, and served on a number of national panels related to perinatal addiction. He currently serves on the Board of the North Carolina March of Dimes and a number of state legislative committees in North Carolina.