Treating Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy

This policy brief was published by The National Institute on Drug Abuse. Methadone has been used to treat pregnant women with opioid use disorder since
the 1970s and was recognized as the standard of care by 1998. Since then, studies have shown that buprenorphine is also an effective treatment option. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Society of Addiction Medicine support methadone and buprenorphine treatment as best practice for opioid use disorder during pregnancy . . .