In this reprise episode, our guests are Sarah Dauber, Ph.D & Lindsey Vuolo JD, MPH of Center on Addiction, a science-based non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to end addiction. They join us to discuss policies that affect how pregnant women with substance use disorders may or may not access care and how we can better align policy with evidence-based care of women with substance use disorders.

Lindsey is the associate director of health law and policy at Center on Addiction and specializes in legal, regulatory and policy work related to addiction prevention and treatment with a focus on health care system reform. Sarah is the associate director of adolescent and family research at Center on Addiction. Her work is focused on evaluating the implementation of empirically-supported interventions for substance use and co-occurring mental health and family risk in usual care settings. In addition, a primary focus of her work is on developing and testing strategies for improving access to quality substance use and mental health treatment for pregnant and postpartum women. You can find the Vice article we discussed about Melissa here. You can find the data on policies surrounding pregnant women and substance use disorders that we discussed here.

Be sure to go back in your feed or click here and here for the first two shows in this series featuring a program providing SUDs care to pregnant women at Lynn Community Health Center. Please tweet us @RoSPodcast or @HMSPrimarycare, or send us an email with comments and suggestions at [email protected]. Thanks for listening!