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Infant of a substance-abusing mother

Alternative Names

IUDE; Intrauterine drug exposure; Maternal drug abuse

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Deirdre O’Reilly, M.D., M.P.H., Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. – 11/27/2007

Substance abuse during pregnancy

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