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Record W2030184445 · doi:10.2307/2655246

Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths

2000· article· en· W2030184445 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ashley P. Simons, Susan Boyd

Bibliographic record

VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPrenatal Substance Exposure Effects
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMythologyCriminologyPolitical scienceSociologyHistoryClassics

Abstract

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This s'tu6y provides a criticai Ferzizl st analysis of q t a k i t a t i v e dacs regarsing women who use i l l i c i t narcotics in Restern Canada, focusing o a t their opinions regarding r h e law and medical and social service policy and regulat =urns that affect their lives.Specifically, this research brings forward the views of 28 rnsrhers who have used illicit dxugs."heir views concerning medicaP treatment for adult women and their newborn infants, Canadian narcotics laws and the effects of treatments are presented.The study also includes data on t h e role of social.services in relation to intervention and to the apprehension of chilidncen.This study reveals the diverse nature of women who use illicit drugs.The consequences of their illicit drug use were mediated by social status, race, class, ge~lder and social environment, as well as by the law, social services and the medical community.Aside from their status as mothers and their use of illicit drugs, the women interviewed were not PPomcqeneous.This thesis also iBiustrates how the identification and diagnosis of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NASI is mediated by mathexs' race and class.The label NAS is a cultural construct chat serves the medical, social services and legai p~ sf essisns through riskw attributions inferventions serve increased social control or' womefi."High- and a , medical and social service to separate Families and to stigmatize and iii punish botb infant and mother.he importance sf ideologies in shaping drug legislation, policy and practices, particularly in the areas of justlce and familial ideobgy is explored.B y linking the research on reproductive autonomy and mothering with a cxlticaf.analysis of drug use within a historical context, this thesis reveals the social control of women who use illicit drugs against a backdrop of the social control of non-drug using women in Western society.Current social attitudes and subsequent harmful practices such as the erosion of civil liberties of mothers and infants flow directly from the criminalization of specific drugs and the social fictions that separate "goodu and "badn drugs.Social attitudes towards mothers who use iliicit drugs have implications for all women, though First -Nations and poor women are over-represented in terms of medical intervention, arrest and child apprehension.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.932
Threshold uncertainty score0.355

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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