"These findings can easily send a very dangerous message to pregnant women," said Bruce Goldman, director of Substance Abuse Services at the Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. He noted that the U.S. surgeon general advises against drinking during pregnancy to avoid fetal alcohol spectrum di
"Social norms have a very powerful impact on drug use patterns," Bruce Goldman, director of substance abuse services at North Shore LIJ in Glen Oaks, N.Y., told MedPage Today in an email. "We need to create norms where substance use and availability, especially for young people, is not acceptable."
Bruce Goldman,director of substance abuse services at the Zucker Hillside Hospital of the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Glen Oaks, N.Y., says the message to parents of honor roll students is clear.
Experts say having one of these conditions increases your vulnerability for the other. "If you have a lifetime addiction and have taken drugs over a long period of time it can affect your psychiatric functioning," says Bruce Goldman, LCSW, CASAC, program director of the Project Outreach Clinic in West Hempstead, N.