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Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse, 2015; 41(5): 367–370
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PERSPECTIVE
Opioid use dysfunction throughout being pregnant in Tennessee: expediency vs.
science
Peter R. Martin, MD and A. J. Reid Finlayson, MD
Division of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt College, Nashville, TN, USA
Summary
Methadone and buprenorphine are extremely efficient and generally prescribed for the
remedy of opioid use dysfunction. Each medicines are additionally efficacious for the remedy of
pregnant girls with this dysfunction. In a single third of states, nonetheless, Medicaid reimbursement
will cowl the price of buprenorphine, however not methadone, to deal with opioid use dysfunction in
pregnant girls. This commentary will discover the scientific and coverage rational and
penalties of this coverage, with the opinion that this strategy is guided by political
expediency slightly than sound scientific analysis. The commentary will give attention to the pharmacological administration of prescription opioid dependence throughout being pregnant in Tennessee, one
of the states that limit Medicaid protection of pregnant girls to buprenorphine. Tennessee
can also be related in that this state ranks second nationally within the charge of prescriptions written for
opioid ache relievers; in distinction to injection opioid use in city populations, opioid habit
in rural and southeastern areas of the US is characterised by use of non-injection prescription
opioids. Till lately, most research-based suggestions for the administration of opioid
use dysfunction throughout being pregnant have derived from research of ladies utilizing opioids
intravenously. The dearth of analysis in non-injection opioid-using pregnant girls might
partially clarify why coverage slightly than scientific proof guides Medicaid reimbursement. It’s
hoped that future analysis in pregnant girls hooked on prescription opioids will make clear
which opioid addicted pregnant girls have higher outcomes with buprenorphine or
methadone remedy and these findings, in flip, will inform Medicaid reimbursement.
Key phrases
Buprenorphine, methadone, opioid use
dysfunction, being pregnant, coverage
Historical past
Obtained 12 January 2015
Revised 20 April 2015
Accepted 21 April 2015
Printed on-line 15 July 2015
A rising public well being concern
Opioid use dysfunction in being pregnant is of mounting public well being
concern in our nation, complicating an estimated 54 000
pregnancies yearly (1). A variety of penalties of
opioid publicity throughout being pregnant for mom, fetus, and the
neonate have been described and questions persist as to
whether or not adversarial results proceed into toddler improvement and
past (2). Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a
postnatal withdrawal syndrome, first described in heroinexposed newborns; extra lately, different elements than opioid
publicity have additionally been implicated on this scientific syndrome
(three). NAS presents with an array of scientific indicators, together with
feeding issue, autonomic dysfunction, and behavioral
misery. NAS has turn out to be well known as a serious
healthcare expenditure related to opioid use dysfunction
throughout being pregnant and accordingly has been recognized as an
necessary focus for prevention efforts (four). The incidence of
NAS elevated considerably in america between
2000 and 2009 (three). This improve has been hanging in
Tennessee, the place 29% of pregnant girls enrolled in
Medicaid (TennCare) stuffed opioid prescriptions throughout

2009. From 1995–2009, pregnancy-related use of opioid
      analgesics almost doubled amongst TennCare members (5).
      From 2009–2011, the speed of NAS amongst infants in TennCare
      elevated from 6.zero–10.7 per 1000 births (6) and to 11.6 in
      2013 (four) – representing a 16-fold improve since 2000. This
      commentary focuses on opioid agonist remedy as a
      significant factor of the administration of prescription
      opioid use dysfunction throughout being pregnant in Tennessee, of
      specific curiosity, as this state ranked second nationally in
      the speed of prescriptions written for opioid ache relievers, at
      1.four per particular person in 2012 (7). In rural and southeastern areas
      of america, comparable to Tennessee, the place opioid
      habit is predominantly characterised by non-injection
      use of prescription opioids, out there therapeutic selections for
      opioid use dysfunction have turn out to be restricted to buprenorphine
      as an alternative of methadone, seemingly a coverage determination, not one
      guided by the out there scientific proof which helps the
      efficacy of each medicines.
      Tackle correspondence to Peter R. Martin, Division of Psychiatry,
      Vanderbilt College, College of Drugs, 1601 23rd Avenue South,
      Suite 3068, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. E-mail: peter.martin@
      vanderbilt.edu
      The Tennessee strategy: criminalization to
      ‘‘encourage’’ remedy however no Medicaid entry
      to methadone
      Even these very excessive charges of NAS in Tennessee seemingly
      underestimate using opioids throughout being pregnant due to
      important underreporting attributable to stigma related to drug
      use issues. This stigma is significantly exacerbated by latest
      Tennessee laws which ‘‘permits prosecution of a lady
      for assault for the unlawful use of a narcotic drug whereas
      pregnant, if her little one is born hooked on or harmed by the
      narcotic drug and the habit or hurt is a results of
      her unlawful use of a narcotic drug taken whereas pregnant’’
      (http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/108/pub/computer0820.pdf). This laws clearly might deter pregnant girls from searching for prenatal
      look after worry of being reported. Nevertheless, the legislation must also
      be considered as providing incentive for habit remedy and
      restoration because it subsequent states that, ‘‘It’s an affirmative protection to
      a prosecution … that the girl actively enrolled in an
      habit restoration program earlier than the kid is born, remained
      in this system after supply, and efficiently accomplished the
      program, no matter whether or not the kid was born hooked on
      or harmed by the narcotic drug.’’ Interpretation of this
      laws is difficult primarily based on latest findings that opioid
      sort, together with methadone and buprenorphine upkeep,
      and tobacco and SSRI antidepressant use all considerably
      improve danger of NAS (6).
      To be able to try to include the prescription opioid
      epidemic within the state, the Tennessee Division of Well being has
      applied a Managed Substance Monitoring Database
      (CSMD) program and necessary training for prescribers
      (http://well being.state.tn.us/boards/ControlledSubstance/index.
      shtml). This program mandates that pharmacies report all
      managed drug prescriptions in a centralized database that
      physicians should search in real-time previous to offering a
      prescription for a managed drug to any affected person. Nevertheless, the
      excessive incidence of NAS has not diminished, a lot in order that
      the primary statewide surveillance system for NAS was lately
      applied by the Tennessee Division of Well being to permit
      research of prevention of this critical complication of prescription opioid dependence (four).
      Choices for administration of opioid use dysfunction throughout
      being pregnant embrace upkeep on an opioid agonist accredited
      for habit remedy or cleansing (1). With cautious
      monitoring, the prescribed opioid analgesic can also be
      continued or discontinued slowly by tapering. Detoxing
      from opioids throughout being pregnant has not been the advisable
      course for greater than 40 years, notably not for ladies with
      essentially the most extreme type of opioid use dysfunction, particularly those that
      use intravenous opioids; such pregnant girls are not possible
      to have the ability to keep away from relapse with out pharmacological Help (eight).
      Methadone upkeep remedy, as at the moment broadly
      employed all through america, stays the usual
      of look after agonist remedy of opioid use dysfunction in being pregnant
      (1). Though consensus holds methadone upkeep because the
      commonplace in opposition to which different remedies of pregnant girls
      with opioid use dysfunction should be in contrast, TennCare doesn’t
      cowl the price of methadone upkeep. Tennessee just isn’t
      alone: roughly a 3rd of states don’t present for
      methadone upkeep remedy of pregnant girls (9).
      Coverage slightly than evidence-guided scientific apply?
      Disparities amongst states in Medicaid Help for remedy of
      these pregnant girls just isn’t simply understood by inspecting
      the revealed proof alone. Does excluding methadone
      from the therapeutic armamentarium for pregnant opioidaddicted girls replicate merely an ill-advised political determination or are these applicable regional insurance policies as a result of
      related proof supporting methadone upkeep in
      their populations just isn’t available? State legal guidelines and
      rules pose important implications for practitioners in
      that coverage would possibly affect scientific apply in a way that
      just isn’t completely in line with suggestions within the
      scientific literature (10).
      With out opioid agonist remedy, which reduces drug
      craving and use, those that are hooked on intravenous
      opioids are acknowledged to be at a very excessive danger of
      relapse and consequently opioid overdose, untimely labor
      triggered by repeated episodes of withdrawal, publicity to
      intravenously transmitted infections, and penalties of
      involvement with the prison justice system. Proof-based
      remedy consists of administration of a therapeutic day by day dose
      of methadone offered throughout the context of a complete
      remedy program comprising psychiatric and obstetrical
      prenatal care, counseling and group remedy, and social work
      companies (11). Methadone upkeep as compared with
      lively intravenous opioid habit has been proven to consequence
      in improved adherence to prenatal care, elevated fetal
      development, and decreased danger of HIV an infection, preeclampsia,
      and foster care placement of the neonate. However, NAS
      of great severity to require remedy with morphine is
      nonetheless noticed in properly over 50% of pregnancies on methadone
      upkeep (12). Therefore, if absence of NAS is one criterion
      for remedy efficacy, as inferred from the above-mentioned
      Tennessee legislation, methadone upkeep, whereas it’s evidencebased apply, might not be the most effective we will do. Additionally, focusing
      solely on NAS, because the Tennessee legislation does, misses the
      chance that girls who relapse throughout being pregnant might
      by no means even attain supply due to problems of
      accelerated opioid use dysfunction (13,14).
      Altering face of opioid habit
      By not masking methadone prices, TennCare, like Medicaid in
      the opposite non-methadone states, limits entry to methadone,
      nevertheless it does make sure that opioid-dependent Tennesseans can
      obtain buprenorphine throughout being pregnant at a restricted day by day
      dose, with prior authorization (http://www.tn.gov/tenncare/
      varieties/ben11001.pdf). This coverage could also be a mirrored image of the
      altering face of opioid habit amongst pregnant girls
      attributable to an ever-expanding prescription opioid epidemic (1).
      From an issue affecting predominantly disenfranchised
      internal metropolis girls utilizing intravenous heroin, a a lot bigger,
      demographically numerous inhabitants hooked on prescription
      opioid analgesics has turn out to be broadly distributed all through
      smaller city and rural areas of america. This
      improve in prescription opioid use dysfunction is attribute of
      southeastern states, together with Tennessee. Not solely is the
      sample of opioid use completely different within the Southeast and in rural
      areas, however this sample of opioid habit represents a
      significantly bigger problem in absolute numbers than do
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      injection opioid customers. For instance, in 1997, annual portions
      of opioid ache relievers prescribed had been equal to 96 mg
      of morphine per particular person; by 2007, charges had reached the
      equal of 700 mg of morphine per particular person. In 2010,
      2 004 000 individuals aged 12 or older initiated non-medical
      opioid ache reliever use (virtually as excessive as the two 426 000 for
      marijuana) in comparison with solely 140 000 for heroin (15). These
      tendencies recommend that administration of non-injection prescription
      opioid use throughout being pregnant will proceed as a serious scientific
      problem and that states like Tennessee could also be legislating
      care primarily based upon epidemiologic knowledge. Nevertheless, methadone
      remedy in being pregnant requirements had been established in giant
      city areas from which a lot of the NIH-funded analysis
      guiding practitioners, up to now, has been performed.
      Administration of non-injection vs. injection
      opioid habit
      Though non-injection opioid habit has fewer extreme
      medical problems than injection drug use (16), overdose
      deaths attributable to opioid analgesics lately surpassed heroin and
      cocaine, rivaling demise charges from motorcar accidents in
      absolute phrases as reported by the CDC (17). So, whereas
      ingested prescription opioids have been thought-about a ‘‘safer’’
      dosage kind in comparison with intravenously administered opioids,
      penalties of those medicine are removed from benign and can’t
      be ignored. In actual fact, an more and more frequent scientific trajectory
      is to change to intravenous or smoked heroin from prescription
      opioids (13,14) primarily based upon altering provide and demand,
      unintended penalties of tighter regulation of prescribing.
      Even though we don’t actually know which sufferers
      (injection or non-injection) do higher on methadone or on
      buprenorphine, TennCare and the Medicaid formularies of
      many demographically comparable states present buprenorphine
      slightly than methadone for opioid use dysfunction remedy.
      Whereas it could be ultimate to find out for every particular person
      whether or not a partial (buprenorphine) or full (methadone) mu
      opioid agonist mixed with structured psychosocial care of
      the mom throughout gestation can lead to a more healthy neonate at
      the purpose when opioid publicity stops at supply (1), the opposite
      excessive, a public well being strategy, makes an attempt to achieve
      the best variety of sufferers with an evidence-based
      strategy (18).
      The chance-benefit Assessment supporting methadone upkeep for intravenous opioid addicted pregnant girls may be very
      compelling (eight,19,20), however comparable research in non-injection
      opioid use dysfunction sufferers, who get hold of these medicine from the
      road or by prescription from their docs for ache management,
      are solely now rising from different rural states like Vermont.
      The findings recommend that buprenorphine is the same as, or might
      be even higher, for prescription opioid addicted pregnant
      girls (21). The scenario is considerably extra sophisticated by
      the truth that the route of heroin administration has change
      dramatically prior to now 10 years as a result of purity of the drug
      that enables for smoking or snorting (22). It might be argued that
      a few of these girls hooked on prescription opioids might
      properly be detoxified or tapered off the opioid, thus avoiding
      NAS for his or her little one. Nevertheless, the chance of continued
      abstinence with out upkeep remedy just isn’t very excessive in
      oral prescription opioid use dysfunction both (23); therefore, the
      dangers of repeated cycles of intoxication and withdrawal, albeit
      much less extreme, do exist with prescription opioids as properly. A case
      can thus be made for upkeep with an opioid agonist to
      scale back craving and dangerous use, however these girls might not
      require the intensive (costly and time-consuming) day by day
      monitoring mandated by legislation for methadone upkeep.
      Buprenorphine upkeep: the sensible alternative
      for pregnant prescription opioid addicts
      Buprenorphine seems to be a very applicable alternative
      for administration of the pregnant prescription opioid addict
      as a result of it has been accredited for office-based upkeep of
      opioid habit, thus eliminating boundaries related to
      day by day visits to a methadone clinic. Buprenorphine can be utilized
      throughout being pregnant with little danger to the fetus, and being pregnant
      outcomes aren’t considerably completely different from these obtained
      with methadone (24). Buprenorphine, a partial mu opioid
      agonist and kappa opioid antagonist, causes much less activation of,
      and has larger affinity for the mu-opioid receptor than
      methadone. Moreover, there may be much less placental switch of
      buprenorphine than methadone. These concerns, in
      concept, ought to result in decreased bodily dependence of the
      fetus with buprenorphine and fewer extreme related NAS
      upon supply. The MOTHER research, a randomized managed
      trial evaluating buprenorphine and methadone publicity
      throughout being pregnant, offered some Help for these predictions (12). Infants uncovered to buprenorphine throughout gestation
      had been discovered to spend fewer days within the hospital and required
      decrease morphine doses over a shorter remedy interval for
      NAS than these uncovered to methadone, whereas each opioid
      agonists had been equally properly tolerated and efficient in
      lowering illicit drug use.
      Additional analysis is required to find out the suitable
      scientific threshold for opioid prescribing in being pregnant,
      together with opioid agonist upkeep in girls who’re
      hooked on prescription opioids and use them solely by way of noninjection routes. That is probably a special inhabitants than
      that from which a lot of the current analysis guiding
      remedy is at the moment out there.
      Declaration of curiosity
      The authors report no conflicts of curiosity. The authors alone
      are answerable for the content material and writing of this paper.
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