"Someone is there with you through this [pregnancy] that isn't seeing you through a negative lens": Considerations for integrating doula referrals into opioid treatment programs.

Introduction: Pregnancy-associated mortality involving opioids represents a significant public health issue. Limited social support is a known factor, contributing to a more complex recovery and a greater risk for relapse and overdose. Community-based doulas have been used in other marginalized populations yet are under-studied among pregnant and parenting persons with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).

Hidden: A Baker's Dozen Ways in Which Research Reporting is Less Transparent than it Could be and Suggestions for Implementing Einstein's Dictum.

The tutelage of our mentors as scientists included the analogy that writing a good scientific paper was an exercise in storytelling that omitted unessential details that did not move the story forward or that detracted from the overall message. However, the advice to not get lost in the details had an important flaw. In science, it is the many details of the data themselves and the methods used to generate and analyze them that give conclusions their probative meaning.

Scarce perinatal social support for women with OUD: Opportunities for doula services.

Problem: Persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) often lack social support, which is associated with improved recovery outcomes.

Background: In the last two decades, the rate of opioid use disorder (OUD) among pregnant people has quadrupled.

Question: This study aimed to describe the prenatal and postpartum social support networks and needs of persons with OUD and assess perceived acceptability of community-based social supports such as doulas.