School-aged outcomes after prenatal opioid exposure with Louise Marryat

In this episode, Dr Elle Wadsworth talks to Dr Louise Marryat, a senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The interview covers Louise’s systematic review on prenatal opioid exposure, and health, social and educational outcomes for school-aged children.

• The motivation behind Louise’s systematic review [00:50]
• The current evidence surrounding prenatal opioid exposure and early outcomes [02:13]
• What Louise defined as prenatal opioid exposure in her review [03:08]
• The limitation of small sample sizes in the included studies [04:08]
• The methods of the review [04:55]
• The key findings of the review [08:20]
• The implications of the findings on Scottish health policy [12:38]
• The take home messages for researchers and clinicians [15:48]

About Elle Wadsworth: Elle is an academic fellow with the Society for the Study of Addiction. She is based at the University of Bath with the Addiction and Mental Health Group and her research interests include drug policy, cannabis legalisation, and public health. Elle holds a voluntary role at The Loop, a non-profit service provider of drug checking in the UK.

About Louise Marryat: Louise is a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. A sociologist by training, she holds a PhD in Psychological Medicine and has dedicated her career to understanding the social, environmental, and psychological factors that shape health and wellbeing across the life course. She currently leads the UK Opioids in Pregnancy Study (https://opioidsinpregnancy.gla.ac.uk/), exploring the impacts of opioid use and treatment during pregnancy on mothers and children. Her research focuses on reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for children, families, and communities experiencing disadvantage through evidence-based policy and practice.

Declarations of interest: None

Original article: Prenatal opioid exposure, and health, social and educational outcomes for school-aged children: A systematic review https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70510

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