Regional Meeting Save The Date

  • Start: October 12, 2020 8:00 am, 1 More
  • End: October 12, 2020 5:00 pm

  • Start: October 13, 2020 8:00 am
  • End: October 13, 2020 5:00 pm

Bahia Vista Street, Sarasota, Florida, United States

Objectives: To share and learn from each other more about the innovative ways each county has chosen to address the impact of the substance abuse disorder on their pregnant patients and their newborns.

Audience: Medical Community, Nonprofit Organizations, Treatment Providers, Healthcare Professionals, Law Enforcement, Legal, Prevention Coalitions and Experts, State Agencies, and others who are involved with these patients or their newborns.

Keynote Presentations: Dr. Scott Rivkees, Florida’s Surgeon General, “Status of Opioid Use Disorder and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Florida: Where Are We?” and Craig Tower, M.D. Professor, Vice Chair, Research Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, “Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in the Pregnant Population. Role of Detoxification and Maintenance in Caring for the Addicted Pregnant Patient”

Topics Covered:

  • Marijuana and Vaping Use in Pregnancy
  • Role of Mental Health in the Substance Abusing Pregnant Patient
  • Pregnancy and Homelessness
  • Evolving Drug Climate in Counties:
    Past and Present
  • SPARCC Domestic Violence
  • First 1,000 Days Update – Sarasota