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When considering a urine drug test (UDT) to screen for substance use
Ask Yourself: What does pee tell you?
The Answer: Not a lot.

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The Importance of Prenatal Care: Go early. Go often.

Did you know?

Getting good prenatal care is the single most important thing you can do to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.

Prenatal care can eliminate many of the risks associated with substance use.

El-Mohandes A, Herman AA, Nabil El-Khorazaty M, Katta PS, White D, Grylack L.
Prenatal care reduces the impact of illicit drug use on perinatal outcomes. J Perinatol 2003;23:354–60.

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If our response to this crisis is just about opioids, we are missing a massive moment to actually be set up to deal with subsequent epidemics - much less actually understand what's going on now.

Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH

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