Treating mothers for opioid addiction throughout pregnancy reduces complications during delivery and beyond.
Jeannie Kelly didn’t go into obstetrics to become a specialist in substance misuse. But after discovering a drastic disparity in the way pregnant people with opioid use disorder were treated on the US East Coast compared with those in the Midwest, her path changed.
, the number of women with opioid-related diagnoses at the time of delivery rose by 131% between 2010 and 2017. The number of newborns with NAS increased by 82% during the same period.Kelly’s practice was ill-equipped to handle the rising number of people needing treatment. So in 2018, she created the Clinic for Acceptance, Recovery and Empowerment in Pregnancy in collaboration with Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis.
The expertise needed to treat these people was at her fingertips — she just had to meld it together. Instead of patients having to see a dozen different departments, Kelly created a place where the teams were in one location.
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