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SOSTANZE D'ABUSO: EROINA
 
EROINA: ABUSO E TOSSICODIPENDENZA - CHE EFFETTO HA L'EROINA SULLE DONNE IN GRAVIDANZA? (NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE)

National Institute on Drug Abuse
Research Report Series

Heroin: Abuse and Addiction


How does heroin abuse
affect pregnant women?


Heroin abuse can cause serious complications during pregnancy, including miscarriage and premature delivery. Children born to addicted mothers are at greater risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), as well. Pregnant women should not be detoxified from opiates because of the increased risk of spontaneous abortion or premature delivery; rather, treatment with methadone is strongly advised. Although infants born to mothers taking prescribed methadone may show signs of physical dependence, they can be treated easily and safely in the nursery. Research has demonstrated also that the effects of in utero exposure to methadone are relatively benign.


Why are heroin users at special
risk for contracting HIV/AIDS
and hepatitis B and C?


Heroin addicts are at risk for contracting HIV, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases. Drug abusers may become infected with HIV, hepatitis C, and other blood-borne pathogens through sharing and reuse of syringes and injection paraphernalia that have been used by infected individuals. They may also become infected with HIV and, although less often, to hepatitis C through unprotected sexual contact with an infected person. Injection drug use has been a factor in an estimated one-third of all HIV and more than half of all hepatitis C cases in the Nation.

NIDA-funded research has found that drug abusers can change the behaviors that put them at risk for contracting HIV, through drug abuse treatment, prevention, and community-based outreach programs. They can eliminate drug use, drug-related risk behaviors such as needle sharing, unsafe sexual practices, and, in turn, the risk of exposure to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Drug abuse prevention and treatment are highly effective in preventing the spread of HIV.

Heroin Abuse and Pregnant Women

For additional information about NIDA send e-mail to Information@lists.nida.nih.gov

This page last updated Thursday, August 31, 2000.


Eroina - Introduzione - Prodotti - Effetti farmacologici - Utilizzo clinico - Informazioni supplementari

Review a cura del Gruppo Evelink - release dicembre 2000 - Fonti: CD-ROM "Stupefacente", a cura della Guardia di Finzanza; Il sito ufficiale dell'UNOCCP (United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention); Medline.

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