More than 1,200 pregnant and postpartum women died of a drug overdose in the US in 2020, with overdoses involved in more than 1 in 6 pregnancy-associated deaths that year, according to a new study.
Drug overdose deaths reached record levels nationwide during the Covid-19 pandemic, and research published Tuesday suggests an outsized effect on pregnant and recently pregnant people. “We’ve made a lot of progress in better understanding addiction as a disease. But when it comes to pregnant and parenting people, it’s still an incredibly stigmatized issue,” said Emilie Bruzelius, a researcher at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and co-author of the study.
But they’re scared to walk in our door because the stigma and the discrimination that they are facing in society – and sometimes in health care – is overwhelming,” said Hendrée Jones, executive director for UNC Horizons, a substance use disorder treatment program specifically for pregnant or parenting women and their children based out of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
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