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Child Welfare Interventions For Drug-Dependent Pregnant Women: Limitations Of A Non-Public Health Response, Ellen M. Weber
Child Welfare Interventions For Drug-Dependent Pregnant Women: Limitations Of A Non-Public Health Response, Ellen M. Weber
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National drug policy, medical practice and the child welfare system have not kept pace with scientific research that points to effective health interventions to address alcoholism and drug dependence among pregnant women. In its 2003 amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Congress adopted a policy requiring physicians to report to child protective services all patients who give birth to an infant affected by illicit drug use. Drawing on epidemiological, medical and social science research, this Article critiques Congress’s decision to require health professionals to engage in a surveillance role instead of a therapeutic intervention. In seeking to …
The American Right-Wing Policy Agenda, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
The American Right-Wing Policy Agenda, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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Right-wing health policy is alive and well in the United States. Pro-business and libertarian health policy advocacy groups, generously funded by right-wing foundations (and, in some instances, by the health care industry), produce a continuous stream of press releases, policy-statements, books, articles, and symposia, as well as testimony before legislative and administrative bodies. Their positions are taken very seriously by the American media, who make certain that right-wing policy experts are represented in any discussion of current health policy issues.