Improving pregnancy outcomes among high-risk mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs: Factors associated with subsequent exposed births

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-18

  Grant, Therese ^a,b   Christopher Graham, J ^b   Ernst, Cara C ^b   Michelle Peavy, K ^b,c   Brown, Natalie Novick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Evergreen Treatment Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Maternal substance abuse; Subsequent birth; Substance exposed birth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907502438     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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