Carolyn Sufrin will present a talk titled, "Opioid Use Disorder among Pregnant People in Jails: Implementing medication assisted treatment within carceral systems".

Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and
Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 

Abstract: Tremendous variability in pregnancy care exists in US jails, including for pregnant incarcerated people with opioid use disorder. Jails will commonly force pregnant people to detox from opioids. This talk will provide context for jails’ integral role in caring for these patients as part of the broader health care system and discuss challenges in providing standard of care with medication assisted treatment (MAT). In addition, methods for a recently launched study to design and implement an intervention for jails to provide MAT in pregnancy will be presented.

Magee-Womens Research Institute Research Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics & Health Law