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Are you interested in best practices and care pathways for pregnant women who are dependent on drugs, and their infants?

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6- Protocols and frequency for drug testing women in pregnancy varied as did the recommendations for the lengths of time neonates should be observed for neonatal abstinence syndrome.

2- A total of 111 guidelines or policy documents published between 2000 and 2022 were included in the review. The review found that:

3- · Guidance and policy documents consistently recommended multi-agency working, information sharing, and clear referral pathways. With more recent documents advocating a trauma-informed approach.

5- There was some inconsistency within local guidance on recommended opioid substitution medications for pregnant women.

8- There was a lack of guidance for supporting and care for women who have had their babies have been removed from their care as a result of substance use.

7- Many of the safeguarding documents from England in particular drew on the Hidden Harm Report (2003) , although it was also clear from included documents that drug use did not necessarily mean that a mother could not provide good enough parenting.

9- IN CONCLUSION: There is an urgent need to identify how services can work across disciplinary boundaries to consistently provide evidence-based support to this vulnerable group of mothers.

🚨 Scoping Review of clinical guidelines and policy documents addressing the needs of women who use drugs in the perinatal period 🚨 A THREAD OF FINDINGS:

DrLynne Polly Radcliffe Prof Helen Cheyne Shirley Lewis Emma Louise Smith, PhD Jo Neale

“Crime has fallen by 50%” says Home Office Rishi Sunak Conservatives based on the headline official measure of crime in England and Wales.

But that excludes harassment, stalking and sexual assault (yes, even rape).

***Job opportunity*** Join SARG - SCHARR at The University of Sheffield as a Research Associate in Alcohol and Public Health in the new NIHR Research Policy Research Unit in Addictions.

Great opportunity if you're keen on research that directly influences policy jobs.ac.uk/job/DFM429/res…

💡NEW PUBLICATION ALERT💡Click here to read about our Scoping review mapping clinical guidelines and policy documents addressing needs of women who are dependent on drugs during the perinatal period …pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Research Assistant post on the Stepping Stones Study.Come and work with us! This would be great opportunity for someone looking for qual research experience in a lovely team :)

JOB ALERT 🚨: Research Assistant wanted for the Stepping Stones study kcl.ac.uk/jobs/079386-re…

A joy to finally hear Anna Millington speak on how mothers are treated in treatment services. We are failing mothers who use drugs HIT #HHT23 and some of the solutions are so small and so doable so why aren't we doing it.

Have some innovative ideas about #drugpolicy ? Looking for feedback?

Please consider presenting your work ISSDP in Montreal (June 19-21) & Lisbon Addictions in Lisbon (Oct 23-25)

#ISSDP2024 abstracts due Dec 13
#LxAddictions24 abstracts due Jan 31
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Day Two of the #SSAConference is beginning with Prof Roy Robertson, chaired by @DrJMas discussing #HealthInequalities

As a 'compassionate' British person, you do not speak for me. It is an international disgrace that our government has been 'taken over' by populist MPs stirring up hatred towards people who are street homeless. Please bring on a kinder politics