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So I'm on my first inpatient rotation. Today I had a patient I have grown very fond of decide to go to hospice. It was a very sound medical decision, but she started talking about how she'll go to heaven and be able to walk and see again and be with her husband and her parents. It really got...

I'm looking for any reference articles to gather information specifically pertaining to children of mothers who are addicts. (Opiate addiction, but anything would be helpful). I'm looking for effects of how the mother being absent can affect the development in the acute phases of toddler...