| Being addicted to drugs can ruin your life and the | | | | risk of miscarriage if detoxification is done during the |
| lives of others. What happens if a woman is a drug | | | | second trimester. Miscarriage and premature labor risk |
| user and she becomes pregnant? Further drug use | | | | is greatly reduced at this time. |
| will risk the life of her child. So what does she do? | | | | All this depends on whether the mother will return to |
| Drug detox during pregnancy must be treated with | | | | street drug use, after she gets gone through a drug |
| extreme caution. Although at this stage if the woman | | | | detox, but before delivery. In cases like this |
| wants to carry on with the pregnancy, some form | | | | methadone treatment may be the answer, with a |
| of Drug Detox becomes essential. To continue taking | | | | program of drug detoxification after delivery. |
| drugs during pregnancy would cause severe hazards | | | | The first thing she must do to is stop taking the |
| to the unborn child as any substances consumed by | | | | street drugs immediately. Then she must speak to |
| mother can be carried into the fetal blood stream. | | | | her gynecologist, telling them exactly what drugs |
| This can result in severe abnormalities, developmental | | | | they have been taking. All situations in which the |
| disabilities, severe mental retardation, even death. | | | | woman is exposed to toxins should be avoided. Most |
| After birth, drugs can pass to the baby during breast | | | | women will want to detoxify when they find out |
| feeding. | | | | that they're pregnant to make sure that their children |
| Abrupt withdrawal should be avoided, especially if the | | | | are not born with addictions. |
| woman is on hard drugs such as heroin. There is less | | | | |