Information for Parents

Teens and Tweens Podcasts
Interviews with experts in adolescent mental health and addictions hosted by an adolescent and family therapist.

Parenting and Mental Health Issues

Parenting, Drugs and Addictions

Mothers & Babies

Is It Safe for My Baby?
Information for mothers and mothers-to-be about the relative risk and safety of prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drugs, along with alcohol, tobacco and other substances to the unborn baby when the mother is pregnant and the baby when breastfeeding.

Exposure to Psychotropic Medications and Other Substances during Pregnancy and Lactation: A Handbook for Health Care Providers Developed through a partnership between Motherisk and CAMH
A great deal of misinformation exists about women’s use of substances during pregnancy and lactation. A health care provider’s challenge is to know the true risks and benefits, both to the mother and to her fetus or baby, of taking versus stopping the use of a medication or other substance. Yet the average provider is not well equipped to give the best advice to women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and exposed to psychotropics.