Improving treatment of opioid use disorder in pregnancy: first define the workforce

As Hollander et al1 report, the maternity care workforce in the United States has not adapted to care adequately for the growing number of pregnant women with opioid use disorder. We agree that obstetric providers could help fill a gap in opioid treatment during pregnancy, particularly in rural areas. However, we would like to draw attention to the problem of lumping a diverse group of medical specialties and provider types into a broad “primary care” category.

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