Long-term treatment outcomes in a First Nations high school population with opioid use disorder.

Objective: To assess for long-term positive effects of buprenorphine treatment (BT) on opioid use disorder (OUD) at a Nishnawbe Aski Nation high school clinic.

Design: Postgraduation telephone survey of high school students between March 2017 and January 2018.

Setting: Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, Ont.

The opioid dependent mother and newborn- an update. The 6th Annual Ivey Symposium.

The sixth Ivey Chair Symposium, held at the University of Western Ontario in October 2011, was dedicated to an update on the complex issues surrounding opioid dependent mothers and their newborns. The day commenced with Loretta Finnegan who provided a historical overview of the complex issues surrounding the addicted mother and her baby suffering from neonatal withdrawal syndrome. It is remarkable that the tool devised by Dr Finnegan forty years ago is in wide use today, capturing accurately the severity of NAS and the need for follow up and treatment.