Mothers and illicit drugs : transcending the myths /

Mothers and illicit drugs : transcending the myths /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Boyd, Susan C., 1953- author.
Imprint:	Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 243 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Mothers -- Drug use -- Canada. Mothers -- Drug use -- United States. Mothers -- Canada. Substance-Related Disorders -- Canada. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome -- Canada. Social Control, Formal -- Canada. Mothers -- Drug use. Canada. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11184180

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ISBN:	9781442677418 1442677414 0802043313 0802081517 9780802043313 9780802081513
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"During the past decade, media and medical forces have combined to create an alarming view of pregnant mothers who use illicit drugs. The result has been increased state control of these women and their infants. This in-depth study is the first in Canada to look at how mothers who use illicit drugs regard the laws, medical practices, and social services that intervene in their lives." "Focusing on practices in western Canada, Susan C. Boyd argues that licit and illicit drug categories are artificial and dangerous and that the evidence for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is suspect and ideologically driven. She shows that women of colour and poor women are treated much more harshly by authorities, that current regulations erode women's civil liberties, and that social control is the aim of drug policy and law. The study highlights mothers' views of the NAS program at Sunny Hill Hospital for Children in Vancouver."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Boyd, Susan C., 1953- Mothers and illicit drugs. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1999 9780802043313

Description
Summary:	A critical feminist expose of some surprising social fictions about both "good" and "bad" drugs, and "good" and "bad" mothers.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 243 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
ISBN:	9781442677418 1442677414 0802043313 0802081517 9780802043313 9780802081513