title: Psychiatric aspects of substance use disorders in childbearing populations.
abstract: Prevention and treatment research in the field of perinatal addiction is at a point of high activity. At the same time, the fields of psychiatry and addiction treatment are undergoing a process of rapprochement. Psychiatrists have a knowledge base and unique perspective of value in framing questions that must be addressed in our quest for knowledge about substance use disorders in the child-bearing population. In particular, detailed studies of psychiatric comorbidity, psychosocial characteristics associated with anticipated or actual pregnancy as a motivation for abstinence, treatment entry and recovery, and treatment approaches to past and ongoing victimization in the chemically dependent pregnant population are priorities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine.
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Raskin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*