Introduction:

Psychoactive substances use during pregnancy could produce some pathologies as an acute psychiatric disorder, abstinence syndrome, and some risks related to drug use behavior.

Objective:

To describe the prevalence of mental disorders and drug use in pregnant women with high obstetrician risk.

Materials and methods:

Observational and transversal descriptive study in 220 pregnant women with high obstetrician risk. The prevalence of mental disorders and drug use were calculated.

Results:

The most frequent mental illness is the major depressive episode (10,0%). The most used substances, in the last year, were alcohol (58,3%), energetics drinks (36,4%), cigarettes (10,9%), and marihuana (6,4%).

Conclusions:

It is necessary to include, in the expectant woman attention protocol, the exploration of those aspects, including urine drug screen, because of the implications of psychoactive substances use and mental disorders in the public health.

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