About Us

The PRIMA (Pregnancy-Related Issues in the Management of Addictions) project is designed to assist Canadian health professionals providing prenatal and intrapartum care for women with problematic substance use in pregnancy (PSUP) as well as neonatal and pediatric care for children who were substance-exposed in utero. The PRIMA project team is committed to improving the care of Canadian women and children affected by substances through information that is scientifically sound and unbiased. The addictionpregnancy.ca website is intended to be both an information source and a portal to high quality information sources.

The information on addictionpregnancy.ca is maintained through a collaborative process of specialist contributors and managed by a small group of health care practitioners. Each contributor to addictionpregnancy.ca is a health care provider, child development expert or other specialist who is currently doing clinical work, research, education and/or community service in a field related to addiction and pregnancy or child development. All contributors to addictionpregnancy.ca are members of good standing of their regional licensing authority, where applicable.

Citation

Ordean A, Midmer D, Graves L, Payne S, Hunt G, and the PRIMA Group*. PRIMA (Pregnancy-Related Issues in the Management of Addictions): A Reference for Care Providers. Toronto (Canada): Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, 2008.

*R. Abrahams, K. Cardinal, M. Kahan, S. Minorgan, P. Mousmans, P. Selby, R. Wilson, S. Wong.

Contributors

The PRIMA team

British Columbia Ron Abrahams, MD, Family Physician

Jennifer Fitzpatrick, Research Assistant

Georgia Hunt, MD, Family Physician

Sarah Payne, RN, MA, Former Midwife

Ron Wilson, MD, Family Physician

Alberta Kathy Cardinal, MD, Family Physician

Manitoba Phil Hall, MD, Neonatologist

Ontario Talar Boyajian, Student Researcher

Wendy Burgoyne, Best Start

Rosa Dragonetti, Pregnets Coordinator

Theresa Kim, Research Assistant

Lisa Lefebvre, MD, Physician at CAMH

Margaret Leslie, Breaking the Cycle

Pat Mousmanis, MD, CCFP

Alice Ordean, MD, Family Physician

Sue Wong, MD, Obstetrician

Quebec Lisa Graves, MD, Family Physician

Sam Harper, MD, Family Physician

Stephanie Minorgan, MD, Family Physician

External Reviewers

The PRIMA Pocket Reference Guide was set out for external reviews. We wish to thank those listed below for their thoughtful and helpful comments.

Site Editors

Meldon Kahan

Theresa Kim

Deana Midmer

Alice Ordean

This site last edited: June 2008