There have always been barriers to treatment for substance use during pregnancy. The pandemic made it worse.
The research, published, provides a stark look at how substance use disorder is harming pregnant people, who are less likely than others to seek or receive help for a dependency on opioids and other drugs.
Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health looked at the death certificates of 7,642 people who died while pregnant or had just given birth from 2017 through 2020. Of those, 1,249 died of a drug overdose — usually from methamphetamine, cocaine or theDuring that time, the rate of overdose deaths in that group nearly doubled, from 6.56 to 11.85 per 100,000.
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