Substance Abuse During Pregnancy Act of 1990

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Substance Abuse During Pregnancy Act of 1990 - Replaces Public Health Service Act provisions relating to model projects for pregnant and post partum women and their infants with provisions directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, to make grants to eligible entities to provide inpatient, outpatient, and residential substance abuse treatment programs for substance-abusing pregnant and post partum women and their infants. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to enable the institution to train health care personnel to identify substance-abusing pregnant and post partum women and substance-abused infants. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible entities to increase incentives for foster parents to care for substance-abused infants. Allows grant funds to be used, among other things, for financial incentives to recruit foster parents. Limits total expenditures per infant per year. Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to direct the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to identify, monitor, place, and track substance-abused infants. Directs the Secretary to: (1) arrange for a study regarding specified aspects of substance-abused infants; and (2) invite the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to submit applications to conduct the study. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the National Institutes of Health, to conduct a study to identify children, including children receiving assistance under the Head Start Act, who were exposed to substance abuse during the pregnancy of their mothers. Requires the program to evaluate the developmental disabilities of the children. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct a study regarding techniques to detect substance abuse during pregnancy. Authorizes appropriations.

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