Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Nov 2019
Treating perinatal opioid use disorder in rural settings: Challenges and opportunities.
Perinatal opioid use disorder (OUD) is a life-threatening condition that significantly impacts women in rural areas. Medication assisted treatment (MAT) is the recommended treatment but can be difficult to access. ⋯ However, initiating treatment may present challenges to providers who lack experience treating this disorder. Vermont and New Hampshire are predominantly rural states which have focused on expanding MAT access for pregnant women using two different approaches to integrating treatment with maternity care.