Against professional advice: treatment attrition among pregnant methamphetamine users
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Against professional advice: treatment attrition among pregnant methamphetamine users
Pregnant methamphetamine users who leave substance use treatment against professional advice may be at risk of poorer health outcomes. To examine the hypothesis that methamphetamine use during pregnancy may be associated with leaving substance use treatment against professional advice, the 2006 Treatment Episode Data Set was analyzed. A logistic regression adjusting for age, race, service setti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1179-8467
DOI: 10.2147/sar.s25083