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Importance of helping pregnant women with SUDs
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30479
Subject(s) - boredom , psychology , pandemic , substance use , social psychology , psychiatry , covid-19 , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
If you are pregnant and have a substance use disorder (SUD), you should not hide it, but rather seek help. This is also true for women without a full‐blown SUD, but who may be concerned that one is developing. During the pandemic and quarantine, drinking in general has been going up, partly due to stress and boredom.