Pregnancy & substance use

Pregnancy & substance use

Date(s): 5 May 2027

Times: 9.15 registration for 9.30 - 4.30

Delivery: Online using Zoom

Course overview:

Improve your knowledge and understanding of specific challenges and risks for pregnant women using alcohol and other drugs and their unborn babies to inform a holistic assessment; and develop confidence in providing harm reduction interventions and planning for safety.

Aim(s):

To improve your knowledge and understanding of working with pregnant drug/alcohol users and to feel confident in providing harm reduction interventions alongside safety planning

Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:

• Think about specific gender challenges for women with substance use
• Be able to assess substance misuse during pregnancy and ask additional questions about the unborn baby e.g. have you seen a midwife?
• Understand the different effects of drugs and alcohol on the unborn baby
• Be able to articulate the risks to the unborn to the parent (s) and other professionals to inform a holistic risk assessment
• Understand different medication options available to those who are pregnant e.g. methadone, buprenorphine, buvidal
• Feel confident in providing harm reduction advice to those who are pregnant and their partners
• Think about the complexity and risk if substance misuse is accompanied by other factors e.g. domestic abuse and perinatal mental health

Maximum group size: 14