The research, published, provides a stark look at how substance use disorder is harming pregnant people who are less likely than others to seek or receive help for a dependency on opioids and other drugs.
While the rate of overdose deaths among women of childbearing age was higher — 19.76 per 100,000 in 2020, compared with 14.37 per 100,000 in 2017 — the rate of increase was much faster among pregnant women and those who’d given birth within the previous year. Medications like methadone and buprenorphine to treat the disorder can be used safely in pregnant women and greatly increases the chances mom will carry the baby to full term, said Dr. Stephen Patrick, a neonatologist and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy in Nashville.
"Oftentimes what we find is addiction medicine doctors not comfortable taking care of pregnant women, and obstetricians not comfortable taking care of addiction," Patrick said. Pregnant people are left stuck in the middle."Pregnant women became even more vulnerable during Covid because access to treatments for anything that wasn't Covid went down," said Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry and addiction medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
…doctors continue to refuse treating us. So THEY could hide behind the CDC to protect them and most non-cancer opioids were taken away. Now CDC changed their FEDERAL GUIDELINES, docs have no shield, patients no medicine to help any (40yrs here) extreme pain AND withdrawal? WHY?
What I’ve yet to hear from any news source is WHY do so many Americans want to die? 2017, 191 Million US citizens took methadone for pain. 11 Million died, mostly painless suicides. 180M had their legit medicine taken away. 11/3/22 CDC went back due to under-treatment. But…
This is a “N.S.S.” Issue (No Sh** Sherlock). Did you expect it to go in any other direction? Covid is far from over, Monkey-Pox are back, we’re DIVIDED, NOT UNITED more than ever, invented mass shootings & CHICKEN-COPS that RUN AWAY. We *expect Respect*? For what? Caged kids?
Decriminalize All Drugs. Portugal Did It In 2001 And So Can The U.S. Of A.
Really not a whole lot to do with the pandemic it has a lot to do with Biden allowing drugs to pour across our border and killing our citizens. Yes this administration is killing its own citizens think about that
these women need to get the implant if they are going to use drugs!!! don't subject an unwilling fetus to your nasty habits!!!!😡😡😡
Maybe if the Biden Administration would control the border, this wouldn't happen!! But you continue to cover for him
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Biden doesn’t give a shit
Which must correlate to an increase in the number of babies born addicted as well.. CONTROLtheBorder border
Lots and lots of lost souls out there.
Stop making drugs easy to get
Saving each state an incalculable amount of future expenditure. Not everyone should be allowed to vote and not everyone should be allowed to have kids.
MSM turned to 'FART' = Failed American Radical Traitors!
BartelsBartels5 Gee I wonder why
It is not like it is a secret that drugs will kill u!
Add that to the LBGQT movement and you have a recipe for disaster when it comes to procreating. Human procreation has diminished significantly with these policies and NBC pushes it. In other words, you should clean your act up.
So sad
How can ANYONE do drugs during pregnancy?!?!? I smoked cigarettes every day for 10 years and could not smoke a single one when I was pregnant. Not for the life of me. Some women should not have kids.
it's not about the pandemic, but about the social aspect...
Close the border 💥💥
Good thing the Biden administration was offering free needles for users