Substance Use Disorder
in Pregnancy
Summer 2025 Trainings:
Comprehensive Care for Pregnant Women with SUD and their Infants
Led by Drs. Anna Morad, Jessica Young, and Julia Wood, the trainings will focus on the following:
- General OB and Infant Care for the patient with OUD (Dr. Young)
- Infant support for the OEN & NAS infant including breastfeeding; Eat, Sleep & Console, and Infant Mental Health (Dr. Morad)
- Mental Health Screening, services, and referrals including suicide screening/evidence-based policy using formal screening tools & safety plans (Dr. Wood)
This training is geared to medical providers and nurses.
- July 24th: Knoxville
- July 25th: Johnson City
- August 5th: Memphis
- August 6th: Nashville
- August 25th: Chattanooga
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills.
Community Food Resources
Maine’s Universal Postpartum Naloxone Project
In this video, Dr. Jay Naliboff discusses the universal postpartum Naloxone project in Maine at the 2025 TIPQC Annual Meeting.
Care of the Newborn with Opioid Exposure
In this video, Dr. Anna Morad will provide information on better care practices, breastfeeding and early relational health for newborns with opioid exposure.
Lived Experience Panel Interview
In this video, Dr. Jessica Young talks to two individuals with lived experience in order to gain more insight on the resources and support needed for patients with substance use disorder during pregnancy.
Medication Assisted Treatment: A Patient’s Journey to Recovery
This video is a discussion about how opioid use disorder (OUD) affected a patient’s life through pregnancy and how she was able to overcome opioid dependency with the help of medically assisted treatment (MAT). The discussion describes her path from using prescription opioids to opioid use disorder. The patient shares how MAT has impacted not only her life, but those around her, and the barriers she overcame to regain her wellbeing, as well as her family’s.
Eat, Sleep, Console Approach
Various techniques for determining the level of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions have been used over the last 20 years. The presenter discusses current screening and treatment trends and how the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) approach is used to potentially reduce the need for pharmacologic treatment and may reduce the length of stay in Opioid Exposed Newborns (OEN) and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)/Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS) infants.