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CURRENT PROBLEMS IN PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH CARE
Volume 49, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2019.07.002
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- Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family at Boston Medical Center
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As increasing resources are now being directed towards addressing the growing U.S. opioid epidemic, the long-term care of children from opioid-affected families has been relatively neglected. While an array of evidence suggests long-term negative developmental, medical, and social impacts to children related to their parents' opioid use, there remains much to be learned about how best to support children and families to promote healthy outcomes. Here, we report on the launch of an innovative family-centered pediatric medical home for opioid-affected families in Boston. We describe the program, the patient cohort, and early lessons learned. Important themes include the vulnerability of families with infants whose parents are in early recovery, and the need for compassionate, high-touch, high-continuity, team-based care that views the needs of the family as a whole. We recommend a future emphasis on non-stigmatizing, trauma-informed care; centering the needs of the family by addressing social and logistics barriers and by expanding models of parent-child dyadic care; investing in attachment and mental health interventions; developing strategies for prevention of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the next generation; and grounding our advocacy and actions in a social justice approach.
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