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Drug Screening and Cocaine

The following study will investigate perceptions of mothers with positive urine drug screens for cocaine and those with negative urine drug screens regarding relationships with their infants.

Barabach, Glazer, and Norris (1992) reported that around 30 million Americans have tried cocaine and 5 million use this drug regularly. One in ten pregnant women were estimated to be users. Cocaine use is related to impacts on the woman, fetus, and neonate. Complications for the woman can include hypertension, anemia, cardiac disease, phlebitis, cellulites, hepatitis, cardiac disease, urinary tract and pulmonary infections, sepsis, and acquired immunodeficiency syndromes. Fetus effects can include hypertension, cerebral infarction, meconioum aspiration, abortion, stillbirth, apnea, tachycardia, teratogenic effects, low birth weight, short length, small head circumference, intrauterine growth retardation, and premature birth. Long-term effects remain unknown but may include neurosensory changes with hyperirritability, increased attention disorders, and poor attachment ability. Maternal neglect can result from this drug abuse which may further influence attachment patterns and development. Thus the mother-infant relationship is vulnerable.

In a review of 23 articles, Johnson (2001) found that most studies showed that maternal substance abuse was linked with detrimental impacts on the mother-child interaction, however six studies failed to confirm this effect. The negative interaction was related to the degree of maternal substance abuse in three studies and it was related to the continuation of substance abuse postnatally in two studies.

Johnson (2001) reported examples of findings which conflicted. Results from the study by Barabach, Glazer, and Norris (1992) showed that maternal perception and parent-infant interaction were vulnerable to cocaine-exposed couplets. The cocaine

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