A Unique Opportunity to Study Short and Long Term Consequences in Children Prenatally Exposed to Illicit Drugs and Opioid Maintenance Treatment Using Czech and Scandinavian Registers
Language English Country Czech Republic Media print
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
27743517
DOI
10.21101/cejph.a4474
PII: cejph.a4474
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- children, drug use, methamphetamine, national health registry, opioid maintenance treatment, pregnancy, registry-linkage study,
- MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Heroin toxicity MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Methamphetamine toxicity MeSH
- Narcotic Antagonists toxicity MeSH
- Infant, Newborn MeSH
- Opiate Substitution Treatment MeSH
- Analgesics, Opioid toxicity MeSH
- Substance-Related Disorders epidemiology MeSH
- Registries MeSH
- Pregnancy MeSH
- Pregnancy Outcome MeSH
- Illicit Drugs MeSH
- Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Adult MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Infant, Newborn MeSH
- Pregnancy MeSH
- Female MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic epidemiology MeSH
- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries epidemiology MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Heroin MeSH
- Methamphetamine MeSH
- Narcotic Antagonists MeSH
- Analgesics, Opioid MeSH
- Illicit Drugs MeSH
Licit and illicit drug use in pregnant women constitutes a long lasting and serious problem worldwide. Information on long-term effects of maternal drug use on the child is limited. Nationwide registers provide a great potential to study short and long-term consequences for children exposed to licit and illicit drugs during pregnancy. We discuss this potential, with a special emphasis on exposure to methamphetamine, heroin and prescription drugs used for opioid maintenance treatment (OMT). We also discuss the advantages of register data and of merging such data from different regions. The Czech and Scandinavian registers are largely comparable and provide great opportunities to conduct innovative research. For instance, using Czech and Scandinavian cohorts we can compare groups with similar characteristics, such as mothers in OMT and mothers addicted to other drugs while also controlling for important confounding factors such as health and socio-economic status.
Department of Addictology 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague Prague Czech Republic
National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction Prague Czech Republic
Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research University of Oslo Oslo Norway
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