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Caring for people and their babies in the opioid crisis

Treating mothers for opioid addiction throughout pregnancy reduces complications during delivery and beyond.
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    1. Tammy Worth is a freelance health-care reporter in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Jeannie Kelly sitting beside a female colleague looking intently at a computer screen.

Jeannie Kelly (front) specializes in maternal–fetal medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri. Credit: Jay Fram

Jeannie Kelly didn’t go into obstetrics to become a specialist in substance misuse. But after discovering a drastic disparity in the way pregnant people with opioid use disorder (OUD) were treated on the US East Coast compared with those in the Midwest, her path changed.

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Nature 612, S56-S58 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04347-3

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Children‘s health, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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