Nearly 107,000 Americans are lost to overdose every year and that number is only expected to rise because of the current fentanyl crisis.
"So we have to overcome a lot of that when it comes to reimagining and readdressing the disease of addiction," Dr. Donald Stader said."This is an area of tremendous stigma within medicine and really within society period."
"Overdose and suicide are the top killers of pregnant women in the country and in Colorado. That should give all of us as Americans a hard pause," Stader said. "Dispelling some of the rumors around what happens if I am using substances as a pregnant or a postpartum patient," Duncan said."The biggest barrier for a patient is stigma and continues to be."
"What we can do as a first step is really de-stigmatize that conversation at the bedside. So we talk frankly and openly about substance use and if a mother or a pregnant person is using substances— to then use that as an opportunity to provide naloxone and say, 'Your life matters, the life of your child matters,' and we want you to be alive and be a health mom once your child is born," Stader said.
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