671 - Treating Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy—How Improper Policies Are Resulting in Child Removal - a podcast by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
from 2023-10-06T10:00
Treatment for substance use disorders during pregnancy is effective, and recommended by experts in many cases. But outdated, and often misinformed, policies have led to babies being taken by child welfare agencies because their parents was on anti-addiction medication. Two Johns Hopkins experts in opioid policy, Sachini Bandara and Alex McCourt, talk with Lindsay Smith Rogers about these laws impacting pregnant people and their families, the role of child removal in the opioid epidemic, and what needs to be done to bring a public health lens to the issue. Check out our previous episode on treating substance use disorders during pregnancy here.
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