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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2009 Jun 30;14(4):519–527. doi: 10.1007/s10995-009-0491-0

Table 4.

Tobacco, alcohol and other illicit drug use by methamphetamine use pattern during pregnancy

Methamphetamine use pattern during pregnancy
Consistently high (n = 56)
Increasing (n = 18)
Stable low/moderate (n = 49)
Decreasing (n = 68)
n % n % n % n %
Tobacco
 Use during pregnancy 46 82.1 16 88.9 42 85.7 53 77.9
 Number of cigarettes/day Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
9.70 10.65 6.45 5.83 6.77 7.93 6.14 6.64
Median Range Median Range Median Range Median Range
6 0–47 5 0–20 3 0–33 4 0–23
Alcohol
 Use during pregnancy 14a 25.0 6 33.3 19 38.8 36a 52.9
 Ounces of absolute alcohol/day Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
0.12 0.76 0.12 0.30 0.12 0.40 0.15 0.34
Median Range Median Range Median Range Median Range
0.0 0–5.6 0.0 0–1.2 0.0 0–2.5 0.0 0–1.6
Marijuana
 Use during pregnancy 19 33.9 6 33.3 14 28.6 29 42.7
 Number of joints/day Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
0.07 0.19 0.06 0.15 0.09 0.29 0.12 0.28
Median Range Median Range Median Range Median Range
0.0 0–1.02 0.00 0–0.48 0.0 0–1.67 0.0 0–1.62
Mean number of drugs used 1.45 (SD = 0.91) 1.61 (SD = 0.92) 1.65 (SD = 0.97) 1.94 (SD = 1.16)
a

CH < D (P = 0.016)