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" Drugs and child maltreatment / "
David A. Joyce, Peter M. Winterton.
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BL
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859797
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Joyce, David A.
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Drugs and child maltreatment /\ David A. Joyce, Peter M. Winterton.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Springer,, [2019]
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SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research
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1 online resource
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3030025020
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: 9783030025021
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3030025012
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9783030025014
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The child harmed by drugs -- Identifying the drug -- The clinical presentations -- Laboratory investigation of drug exposure -- Social and family context and its relevance to child maltreatment through drugs -- Protecting the child after a diagnosis of maltreatment through drugs -- Writing a medico-legal report in a case of child maltreatment with drugs -- Conclusions.
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This book combines experience in child protection with expertise in clinical pharmacology and forensic toxicology, to set out a broad contemporary understanding of child maltreatment with drugs. It explores presentations that range through ante-natal exposure, factitious illness, deliberate poisoning, drug accidents while in the care of drug-affected adults, misuse of therapeutic drugs and the drug-related death of a child. It describes how to recognise where deliberate drug exposure or perversion of proper therapeutics is being used to harm a child, how to use laboratory testing to confirm a diagnosis, how to combine medical and social care with the need to gather legal evidence and how to deploy social, medical and legal resources for child protection. The roles of the forensic toxicologist and contemporary forensic laboratory methods in resolving cryptic presentations are discussed in each context. There is guidance on effective communication about drugs within the child protection team and on writing reports for legal purposes, on the way to returning the child to safety. The book also explores the particular difficulties that arise in reconciling parents' rights and cultural beliefs with the obligation to document a child's drug exposure and in dealing with parents and carers who themselves may be drug-impaired.
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Child abuse.
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Children of drug abusers.
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Drug abuse-- Research.
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Child abuse.
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Child welfare.
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Children of drug abusers.
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Drug abuse-- Research.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Psychotherapy.
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Public health preventive medicine.
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362.76
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HV6626.5.J693 2019
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Winterton, Peter M.
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