Policy

Explore existing and emerging policies to support your family-centered pregnant and postpartum women behavioral health treatment program.

• A Collaborative Approach to the Treatment of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorders
• A Public Health Response to Opioid Use in Pregnancy
• A Toolkit for the Perinatal Care of Women with Opioid Use Disorders
• A Whole Family Approach to Jobs: Helping Parents Work and Children Thrive
• Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Joint Principles
• Alcohol Abuse and Other SUDs: Ethical issues in Obstetric and Gynecologic Practice
• Brief – State-Level Policy Advocacy for Children Affected by Parental Substance Use
• Caring for Pregnant Opioid Abusers in Vermont: A Potential Model for Non-Urban Areas
• Designing Medicaid Health Homes for Individuals with Opioid Dependency: Considerations for States
• Developing a Collaborative Approach to Address the Opioid Epidemic
• Developing a Collaborative Approach to Addressing the Opioid Crisis: 2-Part Webinar Series
• Drug Testing in Child Welfare: Practice and Policy Considerations
• Facilitating Cross-System Collaboration: A Primer on Child Welfare, Alcohol and Other Drug Services
• Family Strengthening at the Tipping Point: Emerging Transformation in the Human Services Field
• Family-Centered Treatment for Women with Substance Use Disorders - History and Key Elements
• Federal Guidelines for Opioid Treatment Programs
• Forty Years of State Alcohol and Pregnancy Policies in the USA
• From Generic to Gender-Responsive Treatment: Changes in Social Policies, Treatment, and Outcomes
• Funding Family-Centered Treatment for Women with Substance Use Disorders
• Guidelines for Testing and Reporting Drug Exposed Newborns in Washington State, 2014
• How Minnesota Uses Medicaid Levers to Address Maternal Depression and Improve Healthy Child Dev.
• Improving Care for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
• Lifting the Burden of Addiction: Philanthropic Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders
• Literature Review on Effective Sex- and Gender-Based Systems/Models of Care
• Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Series, Part I of II: Understanding MAT for Families
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Ethical Approaches
• NIH-Funded Study to Focus on Newborns Affected by Opioids
• Open Letter to the Media Regarding Reporting on Prescription Opioid Use By Pregnant Women
• Opioid addiction: Laws, regulations & other factors can affect medication-assisted treatment access
• Opportunities to Address Pregnancy, Drug Use, and the Law
• Perinatal Substance Abuse: At the Clinical Crossroads of Policy and Practice
• Policy Statement from AAP: A Public Health Response to Opioid Use in Pregnancy
• Protecting our Infants Act: Final Strategy
• Protecting our Infants Act: Report to Congress
• Research with Pregnant Women: New Insights on Legal Decision-Making
• Snuggle ME Webinar Series
• State Medicaid Payment Approaches to Improve Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
• State-Level Policy Advocacy for Children Affected by Parental Substance Use
• Substance Abuse During Pregnancy: Guidelines for Screening and Management
• Substance Abuse During Pregnancy: State Laws and Policies as of October 1, 2017
• Substance-Exposed Infants: State Responses to the Problem
• Supporting the Development of Young Children in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
• Systematic Development of an Evidence-Based Website on Preconception Care
• The Treatment of Opioid Dependence in Pregnancy: Vermont Guidelines
• U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016
• Using Medicaid to Finance and Deliver Services in Supportive Housing: Challenges and Opportunities
• What the 'Crack Baby' Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic

Federal and State Legislation

The Guttmacher Institute website maintains a list of state policies on substance use during pregnancy.