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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Opioid use disorder treatment for pregnant people is a standard of care, yet many aren't

able to access it due to stigma and a lack of knowledge about this life-saving treatment.

The situation is even worse for pregnant people who find themselves in the carceral system.

Dr. Carolyn Suffren and OBGYN at Johns Hopkins and Camille Kramer, a doctoral student and Bloomberg American

Health Initiative Fellow, join us today to talk about their new study looking at the availability

of this treatment for incarcerated pregnant women in jails and prisons across the U.S.

Let's listen.

Dr. Carolyn Suffren and Camille Kramer, thank you so much for being on public health on

call.

Today we're going to talk about opioid use disorder treatment in pregnancy for people who are

incarcerated.

We've talked about opioid use disorder treatment in pregnancy before on this podcast, but just

to give everyone a little bit of a refresher, Carolyn, could you

walk us through what this entails? Sure. So before even what the treatment entails for this

situation, I want to highlight that opioid use disorder is a major contributor to maternal mortality

in the United States. So we're not only talking about a health care

condition that needs treatment. Of course, we are talking about that. But the reason we are talking

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