A importância da implementação de politicas públicas para gestantes usuárias de substância psicoativas

Abstract

Introduction: Pregnant women's exposure to psychoactive substances can lead to mother/baby binomial commitments. Objective: To analyze the scientific production on public policies regarding the use of psychoactive substances during pregnancy. Methods: This is a literature review. The initial search consisted of 39 productions, using health descriptors for bibliographic search in different databases. From the establishment of inclusion and exclusion criteria, the corpus of this review consists of a total of 22 articles. Results: The articles were divided into three spheres: Impasses in public policy regarding pregnant women who use psychoactive substances; Risk factors for the use of psychoactive substances; Difficulty in caring for pregnant women. Conclusion: The study sought to discuss and provide reflections on care practices with pregnant women who use psychoactive substances