Nonmedical stimulants can cause severe hypertension, ischemia, arrhythmia, stroke, hyperthermia, seizure and psychosis; pregnancy cohorts associate exposure with growth restriction, preterm birth and placental complications, especially cocaine-related abruption.
- Public-source certainty descriptor
- Moderate for acute toxidrome; low-to-moderate observational pregnancy certainty
- Formal appraisal
- Not started — full text and independent appraisal pending
- Exposure window
- Acute and chronic pregnancy exposure
- Comparator
- Nonmedical stimulant exposure versus no exposure
No single causal estimate adopted
Dose, route, tobacco/alcohol/other drugs, poverty, trauma and prenatal-care access confound outcomes; congenital findings are inconsistent
Sources, citation controls, and verification state
Linked sources
- maternal_and_pregnancy_safetyEXT-142 · Not formally appraised
- Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Stimulant Use DisorderG-ASAM-STUD · Final 2023; journal 2024 · Current
- PMID
- Not populated in v0.95
- DOI
- Pending DOI verification
- Exact locator
- Pending exact table/figure/page/supplement locator
- Access date
- 2026-07-29
- Integrity check
- Same-day source surveillance recorded; source-by-source correction/retraction verification remains pending
- Internal verification
- Source-linked; independent external verification pending