Cocaine use during pregnancy: Sensitive detection by hair assay

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 352-358

  Kline, Jennie ^a   Ng, Stephen K C ^b   Schittini, Mario ^c   Levin, Bruce ^a   Susser, Mervyn ^d  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c Unit 53 ^*  (United States)

^d Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0030980962     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.3.352     Document Type: Article

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