EAN: 9783030025014

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN WELL-BEING AND QUALITY OF LIF...

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 protectionteam 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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