Underdetection of Substance Abuse

Joseph Lurio; Richard Younge; Peter A. Selwyn; Ira J. Chasnoff

doi:10.1056/NEJM199110033251414

Underdetection of Substance Abuse

Joseph Lurio, Richard Younge, Peter A. Selwyn, Ira J. Chasnoff

Family and Social Medicine

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To the Editor: The use of intoxicants during pregnancy is recognized as being harmful to both the mother and the fetus.¹–⁴ Detecting such use in order to intervene should be part of routine prenatal care. In the study by Chasnoff et al. in the April 26, 1990, issue,⁵ discrepancies related to race and economic status were identified in the reporting of substance and alcohol use. In another report,⁶ Chasnoff promotes a type of prenatal care in which basic clinical skills are used to evaluate lifestyle and to diagnose and intervene in substance abuse during pregnancy. To determine whether a model.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1045-1046
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	325
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199110033251414
State	Published - Oct 3 1991

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