Public policy and health in the Trump era

S Woolhandler, DU Himmelstein, S Ahmed, Z Bailey… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the
Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies …

Substance use in pregnancy: identifying stigma and improving care

A Weber, B Miskle, A Lynch, S Arndt… - Substance Abuse and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This review examines the impact of stigma on pregnant people who use substances. Stigma
towards people who use drugs is pervasive and negatively impacts the care of substance …

Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe

LM Paltrow, LH Harris, MF Marshall - The American Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The upcoming US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health
Organization has the potential to eliminate or severely restrict access to legal abortion care …

“You have to take this medication, but then you get punished for taking it:” lack of agency, choice, and fear of medications to treat opioid use disorder across the …

DM Schiff, EC Work, S Muftu, S Partridge… - Journal of substance …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Medications to treat opioid use disorder (MOUD) during pregnancy and in the
postpartum period remain underutilized. A need exists to enhance our understanding of …

Conceptualizing stigma in contexts of pregnancy and opioid misuse: a qualitative study with women and healthcare providers in Ohio

JL Syvertsen, H Toneff, H Howard, C Spadola… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Women with histories of opioid misuse face drug-related stigma, which can be
amplified during pregnancy. While women are often blamed for their drug use and urged to …

State Policies That Treat Prenatal Substance Use As Child Abuse Or Neglect Fail To Achieve Their Intended Goals: Study examines the effect of state policies that …

DN Atkins, CP Durrance - Health Affairs, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
The US is experiencing a complex substance abuse crisis. Not only has opioid overdose
mortality increased sharply, by 400 percent from 1999 to 2017, but opioid use during …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal substance use: consequences, identification, and interventions

G Chang - Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis are the substances most frequently used during pregnancy,
and opioid-exposed pregnancies have increased fourfold. The purpose of this review is to …

“I grew up amidst alcohol and drugs:” a qualitative study on the lived experiences of parental substance use among adults who developed substance use disorders …

F Meulewaeter, E De Schauwer, SSW De Pauw… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Experiencing parental substance use (PSU) has been associated with a heightened risk of
developing substance use disorders (SUDs) in offspring. The primary goal of this study was …

Association of pregnancy-specific alcohol policies with infant morbidities and maltreatment

SCM Roberts, A Schulte, C Zaugg, DL Leslie… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Research has found associations of pregnancy-specific alcohol policies with
increased low birth weight and preterm birth, but associations with other infant outcomes are …

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 …