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Medications
Treatment
The Role of Education
Benefits
Bonus questions
100
The currently preferred method of treatment for pregnant women.
What is Methadone?
100
Behavioral therapy, counseling and prescribing of medications
What is medicated assisted treatment?
100
premature labor, fetal distress, and miscarriage.
What can happen if abrupt discontinuation of opioid use occurs during pregnancy?
100
Methadone is a legal medication that is prescribed by a physician and carefully monitored. Methadone is administered orally and reduces the dangers associated with injection drug use. Methadone is typically administered by a treatment clinic that provides ongoing counseling and support. With stable daily dosing, methadone does not produce a drug high or interfere with daily functioning. Methadone patients have access to medical and social services that are important for rebuilding health and quality of life. When given in the proper dosage, methadone eliminates opiate withdrawal symptoms and drug seeking behavior.
What are some of the benefits of methadone treatment?
100
buprenorphine
What drug required shorter treatment duration and less medication to treat the symptoms of NAS and experienced shorter hospital stays when compared to infants exposed to methadone?
200
This causes babies' withdrawal symptoms to be less severe.
What is Buprenorphine?
200
Methadone, Naltexone, and Burpenorphine.
What are all of the possible medication options for pregnant women?
200
Domestic violence, the need for financial support, food. housing, and childcare.
What are some of the problems that can be addressed by the provision of educational information to pregnant women?
200
Methadone treatment of the pregnant, opioid-addicted mother is routinely cited in research studies as causing a neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now uses the term “neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome” on warning labels when referring to the maternal use of opioids during pregnancy
What is a disadvantage to methadone treatment?
200
The Medicaid population.
Who is more likely to receive prescriptions for opioid pain medications and to have opioids prescribed at higher doses and for longer periods of time?
300
When women cannot tolerate methadone, are already stable on buprenorphine, would have difficulty with program compliance, or are insistent upon avoiding methadone.
What are the exceptions for prescribing Buprenorphine?
300
Continued medication assisted treatment or tapering.
What is a better choice for pregnant women to have healthy babies?
300
Aids prevention, counseling, testing, and educational services
What needs to be available during prenatal and parenting classes for pregnant women who abuse substances?
300
As a result of not being sick from withdrawal, individuals are able to refocus on work, family, and other responsibilities. Methadone (combined with counseling and support) provides a new start and the ability to reclaim one's life Methadone causes no harm to tissues or organs and is medically safe when taken responsibly. Pregnant women in a methadone treatment program have a much higher chance of giving birth to a healthy baby. Compared with buying illicit drugs, becoming a client in a methadone treatment program is an affordable option.
What are some additional benefits of receiving methadone treatment?
300
High pitched crying, sleep disturbance, sweating, fever, exaggerated reflexes, tremors, tight muscles, irritability, sneezing, yawning, poor feeding, loose stools, vomiting, nasal stuffiness, and rapid breathing.
What are the symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)?
400
Methadone or Buprenorphine
What medication has FDA approval?
400
Helps prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Viruses. Helps reduce Criminal Activity It has reduced the number of Deaths due to Overdosing. It improves Physical and the Mental Health of the individuals. Improves both the quality of life and outcome of pregnancies.
What are the results of methadone treatment?
400
At greater risk of overdose death and have an increased risk of harm to the fetus.
What are pregnant women who stop using opioids and subsequently relapse?
400
hypersensitivity and hyperirritability, tremors, vomiting, respiratory difficulties, poor sleep, and low-grade fevers
What are withdrawal symptoms of NAS?
400
Exposure to physical, sexual, and emotional violence History of child abuse and neglect Poor maternal/child attachment Child abuse Psychiatric status of caregiver Stable caregiver and environment Nutrition
What are factors affecting outcomes of mothers and children?
500
Being currently studied, and showing promising early results such as shorter hospitalization for newborns
What is buprenorphine?
500
Data from SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health show that between 2007 and 2014, the numbers of past-year heroin initiates, heroin users, and people with heroin dependence has done what?
What is increased significantly?
500
2000-2009
What is years the use of opioids during pregnancy increased from 1.19 to 5.63 per 1,000 hospital births?
500
Neonatal abstinence syndrome. A newborn is exposed to addictive opiate drugs while in the mother's womb, because these and other substances pass through the placenta to a baby while in the womb. The baby becomes addicted along with the mother. At birth, the baby is still dependent on the drug. Because the baby is no longer getting the drug after birth, symptoms of withdrawal may occur.
What is NAS and how it occurs?
500
collaborative initiatives
A number of communities across the United States have developed what to make systems and processes work more effectively for women with opioid use disorders and their infants?