USA. Slandering the Unborn - How bad science and a moral panic, fueled in part by the news media, demonized mothers and defamed a generation. Legislative intrusion into the womb has a long history in the United States, and nowhere is this paterna...

Childhood neurodevelopment after prescription of maintenance methadone for opioid dependency in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Monnelly VJ, Hamilton R, Chappell FM, Mactier H, Boardman JP. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2018 Dec 3. doi...

A retrospective analysis of treatment and retention outcomes of pregnant and/or parenting women with opioid use disorder. Lopian KM, Chebolu E, Kulak JA, Kahn LS, Blondell RD. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 Feb;97:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2018.11.002...

Charité: Suchterkrankungen in der Schwangerschaft (Themenseite) Die Klinik für Geburtsmedizin hat seit Jahren ein bereits in der Schwangerschaft beginnendes Betreuungskonzept für Suchtmittel konsumierende Schwangere etabliert. Un...

USA. Caught in Chaos—When Pregnant Women With OUD Are Incarcerated; How OTPs Can Help This is the story of a young woman with a 15-year history of severe opioid use disorder (OUD), intermittent hospitalization, and incarceration, who become...

USA. MATER Center Director, on the Importance of Dr. Finnegan’s Work—Which Continues—and the Need to Treat Mothers for Trauma Loretta Finnegan, MD, a champion of medication-assisted treatment with methadone, developed her scorin...