Drugs and Child Maltreatment

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 expo

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David A. Joyce Peter M. Winterton

Drugs and Child Maltreatment

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David A. Joyce Medicine and Pharmacology University of Western Australia Crawley, WA, Australia

Peter M. Winterton Child Protection Physician Perth Children’s Hospital Nedlands, WA, Australia

and Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Service PathWest Laboratory Medicine Nedlands, WA, Australia

ISSN 2211-7644 ISSN 2211-7652 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research ISBN 978-3-030-02501-4 ISBN 978-3-030-02502-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02502-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018957667 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole