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Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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Pediatric and Adolescent Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Physicians who treat adolescents invariably face cases of substance use and abuse. In the past 20 years the use of psychoactive chemicals has become an accepted and, in a statistical sense, even a “normal” part of adolescence and young adulthood. Regardless of the physician’s attitude about drug use and despite shifting legislative responses, the majority of youth today by the time they become adults will have had experience with alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and marijuana.1 A significant proportion of adolescents regularly use drugs such as hallucinogens, amphetamines, cocaine, sedative-hypnotics, opiates, and inhalants.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Obstetric and Gynecolgy, USA

    J. Patrick Lavery (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director) (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director)

  2. Division of Maternal-Medicine, University of Louisville, USA

    J. Patrick Lavery (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director) (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director)

  3. Teenage Parent Program, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

    J. Patrick Lavery (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director) (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director)

  4. Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetric and Gynecolgy, USA

    Joseph S. Sanfilippo (Associate Professor, Co-Director) (Associate Professor, Co-Director)

  5. Pediatric Adolescent Gynecolgy, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

    Joseph S. Sanfilippo (Associate Professor, Co-Director) (Associate Professor, Co-Director)

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Schrodt, G.R., Schikler, K.N. (1985). Drug and Alcohol Abuse. In: Lavery, J.P., Sanfilippo, J.S. (eds) Pediatric and Adolescent Obstetrics and Gynecology. Clinical Perspective in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5064-7_20

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