Stabilization & Maintenance

Related to the stabilization and maintenance phases of treatment for opioid use disorder, during which patients have significantly decreased or discontinued use of opioids.

Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Perinatal Individuals: A Toolkit for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Providers

This toolkit is tailored specifically to the unique needs of multidisciplinary substance use disorder (SUD) providers and programs serving perinatal individuals. It is meant to be a quick reference resource about mental health and SUD specific to perinatal individuals.

Project RESPECT

The Project RESPECT team supports patients throughout their recovery journey during the entire first year postpartum and offer monitored, acute substance withdrawal treatment and induction of medications for opioid use disorder in pregnant patients seeking treatment.

Moms in Recovery

Moms in Recovery is a program for pregnant and parenting women who struggle with substance use, and form close relationships with counselors, psychiatrists, midwives, pediatricians, case managers and recovery coaches.

MaineMOM

MaineMOM aims to improve care for pregnant and postpartum people with opioid use disorder and their infants by integrating maternal and substance use treatment services.

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use

This guideline updates the state of the science on pain research, care, and education with a particular focus on informing the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Drug Safety Communications - FDA warns about dental problems with buprenorphine medicines dissolved in the mouth to treat opioid use disorder and pain

This is an FDA warning that dental problems have been reported with medicines containing buprenorphine that are dissolved in the mouth. Despite these risks, buprenorphine is an important treatment option for opioid use disorder (OUD) and pain, and the benefits of these medicines clearly outweigh the risks.