Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 5 , Pages 300-309 , September 2007

Marijuana Use and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Young Women Who Were Teenage Mothers

  • Natacha M. De Genna, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, (WPIC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Natacha M. De Genna, PhD, Program in Epidemiology, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC), Webster Hall, Suite 138, 4415 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; phone: 412-246-6213; fax: 412-246-6875.
    • ,
  • Marie D. Cornelius, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, (WPIC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Robert L. Cook, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Biostatistics and Medicine, and Florida Center for Medicaid and the Uninsured, Gainesville, Florida

Received 7 May 2007 ,Accepted 5 July 2007.

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 Supported by grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA 009275 PI: M.C.) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA 08284 PI: M.C.). N.D. was supported by a training grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, (NIAAA T32 07453 PI: M.C.) as well as the University of Pittsburgh.

PII: S1049-3867(07)00111-9

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.07.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 5 , Pages 300-309 , September 2007

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