Pregnancy and Drug Abuse The drug abuse menace has been indicated to be one of the leading factors that negatively affect people at whatever stage of life right from the fetus stage to the fully grown baby and the adulthood. There were astonishing statistics from the 2008 and 2009 data that relates to the pregnant women and drug abuse. It is indicated that the drug abuse by pregnant women who are younger was higher than the elderly ones. The percentages of pregnant women between the ages of 15 to 17 and abused drugs stood at 15.8% of them, a figure that is relatively higher that that of women in the same age gap who are not pregnant at 13% (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2011).

These are grim statistics that definitely puts this healthcare problem at the forefront and require the intervention of the entire society and all concerned agencies to ensure that the issue of drug abuse is sufficiently handled and reduced to safeguard the future...

In order to combat this among the pregnant women, there needs to be a comprehensive Ante Natal Care focus on the issue of pregnancy and drug abuse. The program should be one that covers the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of the ANC concerning drug abuse.
One goal of the program is to combat the increasing number of pregnant teenagers using drugs within the locality as will be determined by the attendance in our health facility through the three steps; the primary prevention, the secondary prevention and the tertiary prevention. The target is to take the percentage down from the national 15% to 10% within the next three years. This can only be achieved through this program since it will educate the pregnant women on the dangers of drug abuse during pregnancy, and in turn they will educate others within this community.

There are various levels that this drug use prevention will be…