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Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome And Promotion Of Maternal Caregiving: Missing Voices Of Mothers In Medication Assisted Treatment, Hedi Levine
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In response to the increasing rates of opioid exposure among pregnant women and their infants, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) published “Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants” (2018). The expert panel, which was assembled for this clinical guidance did not include women who were the focal subjects for the guidance. The current qualitative study contributed the missing voices of women in methadone-assisted treatment (MAT) who gave birth subsequent to the publication of the guidance.
The SAMHSA guidance was based upon a preponderance of evidence guiding recommended practices regarding rooming-in, …