What Adversely Affects the Unborn—Psychotropic Drugs or Maternal Morbidity?

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Since the thalidomide disaster, there has been a heightened perception of fetal risk of medications, leading both pregnant patients and their health care providers to fear pharmacotherapy. As a result, quite often women are not treated optimally even for life-threatening conditions. In reality, few medicinal drugs have been shown to be human teratogens, and only a handful are contraindicated due to undisputed evidence of fetal damage.