Substance Use During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Substance Use Disorder during pregnancy and postpartum is treatable. Stigma and fear can prevent pregnant and postpartum women from seeking help. This video discusses stigma and how treatment of SUD during and after pregnancy improve the outcomes for both mom and baby.
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Presenter: Camila Arnaudo, M.D.
Dr. Arnaudo is a perinatal addiction psychiatrist whose work focuses on mental health and addictive illnesses in pregnant and postpartum people with a particular focus on increasing equity and accessibility to quality care. She is the recently named interim vice chair of education for the psychiatry department of Indiana University School of Medicine. She is co-medical director of Indiana CHAMP. She is medical director of the Addictions Treatment Recovery Center (ATRC) at IU Health in Bloomington, and a member of the Indiana Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC). She completed medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and residency in psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Training Program in Boston, Massachusetts. Her fellowship in addictions psychiatry is from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.