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 …

[HTML][HTML] Standardizing the clinical definition of opioid withdrawal in the neonate

SM Jilani, HE Jones, M Grossman, LM Jansson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE To Address challenges in clinical care, quality improvement, research, and
public policy for prenatally opioid-exposed neonates by standardizing the clinical definition …

Association of state child abuse policies and mandated reporting policies with prenatal and postpartum care among women who engaged in substance use during …

AE Austin, RB Naumann, E Simmons - JAMA pediatrics, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Some states have implemented policies that consider substance use during
pregnancy as child abuse and require mandated reporting of substance use during …

Child maltreatment

DG Tolliver, Y He, CJ Kistin - Pediatric Clinics, 2023 - pediatric.theclinics.com
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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 …

Implementation of state laws giving pregnant people priority access to drug treatment programs in the context of coexisting punitive laws

SA White, A McCourt, S Bandara, DJ Goodman… - Women's Health …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background In response to increased prenatal drug use since the 2000s, states have
adopted treatment-oriented laws giving pregnant and postpartum people priority access to …

Association of prenatal substance use with prenatal and postpartum care: Evidence from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2016–2019

E Simmons, AE Austin - Preventive medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to build on existing qualitative research to estimate the
association of prenatal substance use with prenatal and postpartum care. We used data …

Development and implementation of state and federal child welfare laws related to drug use in pregnancy

AD McCOURT, SA White, S Bandara… - The Milbank …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points Over the past several decades, states have adopted policies intended to
address prenatal drug use. Many of these policies have utilized existing child welfare …

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 …