Review ArticleClinical Review

Preventing Alcohol-exposed Pregnancies

Mark B. Mengel, H. Russell Searight and Keely Cook
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2006, 19 (5) 494-505; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.5.494

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