A Scots midwife has escaped being struck off after her boss found her taking laughing gas at work. Mariedh King was ...

A SCOTS midwife took laughing gas meant for pregnant women  while looking after high-risk patients. Mariedh King was caught by her boss inhaling nitrous oxide – also known as ...

Ronnie Keith Williams, the man who received two life sentences in the killings of Lisa Dyke in 1993 and her son, Julius Dyke, ...

A man who has been busted before over drug offences has been jailed after being caught trying to hide thousands of pounds worth of the Class A drug using a heavily pregnant, vulnerable woman.

Substance use among pregnant women continues to be a major public health concern, posing potential risk to their drug-exposed children as well as burdens on society. This review is intended to ...

But it wasn’t always this way. In the 1980s, when the drug crisis involved crack cocaine rather than heroin and prescription pain killers and the setting was primarily black city neighborhoods ...

Drug-using mothers often give birth to ... Babies born to mothers who smoke crack cocaine during pregnancy -- so-called ''crack babies'' -- usually have their own set of physical and mental ...

“As drug use patterns have changed, pregnancy prosecutions have shifted from targeting the use of crack cocaine to focusing on the use of methamphetamines, amphetamines, marijuana and opiates.” ...

The patterns of prosecuting pregnant people for drug use trace back to the crack cocaine crisis in the ‘80s, when it was thought that in utero exposure to crack cocaine would lead to a ...

The law, named Act 246, classifies two common pregnancy medications, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled dangerous substances. The drugs have ... would help crack down on abortion pills ...