“…For example, Jones and colleagues (Jones, Svikis, Rosado, Tuten, & Kulstad, 2004) found the prevalence of PTSD among women with substance use disorders to be as high as 62%, compared to 12% among pregnant women without substance use disorders (Jones et al, 2004; Morland et al, 2007) Conversely, pregnant women who are diagnosed with PTSD are more than twice as likely to use substances as those without trauma history (Morland et al, 2007; Rogal et al, 2007). Psychiatric comorbidity appears to complicate the treatment of substance use disorders during pregnancy, as is also the case for non-pregnant women (Benningfield et al, 2010). …”