title: Drug use and pregnancy - challenges for public health.
abstract: Involving pregnant drug users in drug treatment is likely to decrease the chances of pre- and perinatal complications related to drug use and to increase access to prenatal care. Timely medical intervention can effectively prevent vertical transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus as well as certain other sexually transmitted diseases, and would allow newborns infected with hepatitis C virus during birth to receive immediate treatment.
authors.affiliation: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal. anna.gyarmathy@emcdda.europa.eu
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Gyarmathy
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Giraudon
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hedrich
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Montanari
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guarita
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wiessing