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Drug misuse in adolescence.
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Use of both licit and illicit drugs can lead to a range of medical, psychiatric and social problems, and the situation becomes further complicated if the user is pregnant. Prescribed and non-prescribed substances can affect a pregnancy, and substances are seldom used in isolation. In this review we focus on users of illicit drugs (including prescribed drugs used illicitly) during pregnancy and ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/85.1.136