Association of opioid agonist treatment with all-cause mortality and specific causes of death among people with opioid dependence: a systematic review and meta …

T Santo, B Clark, M Hickman, J Grebely… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mortality among people with opioid dependence is higher than that of the
general population. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is an effective treatment for opioid …

Punitive legal responses to prenatal drug use in the United States: A survey of state policies and systematic review of their public health impacts

E Bruzelius, K Underhill, MS Askari, S Kajeepeta… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Punitive legal responses to prenatal drug use may be associated with
unintended adverse health consequences. However, in a rapidly shifting policy climate …

Prenatal substance use policies and newborn health

A Meinhofer, A Witman, JC Maclean… - Health Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We study the effect of punitive and priority treatment policies relating to illicit substance use
during pregnancy on the rate of neonatal drug withdrawal syndrome, low birth weight, low …

Prenatal Substance Use Policies And Infant Maltreatment Reports: Study examines prenatal substance use policies and infant maltreatment reports.

JC Maclean, A Witman, CP Durrance, DN Atkins… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
We studied the effect of state punitive and supportive prenatal substance use policies on
reports of infant maltreatment to child protection agencies. Punitive policies criminalize …

“The elephant in the room;” a qualitative study of perinatal fears in opioid use disorder treatment in Southern Appalachia

C Leiner, T Cody, N Mullins, M Ramage… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Diagnoses of perinatal opioid use disorder (OUD) continue to rise in the United
States. Patients and providers report obstacles to OUD treatment access. Difficulties include …

Association between punitive policies and neonatal abstinence syndrome among Medicaid‐insured infants in complex policy environments

LJ Faherty, S Heins, AM Kranz, SW Patrick… - Addiction, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To estimate the association between punitive policies for women with substance use
during pregnancy and odds of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) diagnosis among …

Maternal opioid use disorder and the risk of postneonatal infant mortality

S Grossarth, SS Osmundson, AD Wiese… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The risk of serious long-term outcomes for infants born to individuals with opioid
use disorder (OUD) is not fully characterized, nor is it well understood whether risks are …

Factors Influencing Maternal Substance Use and Recovery in the Perinatal Period

KM Renbarger - Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Substance use disorders (SUD) in the perinatal period have risen dramatically
over the past 2 decades. Substance use disorders can have deleterious effects on maternal …

Voices of women with lived experience of substance use during pregnancy: a qualitative study of motivators and barriers to recruitment and retention in research

F Hilliard, E Goldstein, K Nervik, K Croes… - Family & community …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Despite concerns about negative neurocognitive effects of in utero substance exposure on
child and brain development, research in this area is limited. This study gathered …

[HTML][HTML] Circumstances of overdose among suburban women who use opioids: extending an urban analysis informed by drug, set, and setting

AK Lamonica, M Boeri, J Turner - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Opioid overdoses are primarily discussed by the pharmacological properties of
the drugs used. Research shows that other factors such as the social/physical environment …