In Fall 2018, SAMHSA and the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare released a collaborative report, Tapping Tribal Wisdom: Providing Collaborative Care for Native Pregnant Women With Substance Use Disorders and Their Infants, based on listening sessions with several Minnesota tribes to learn from their experiences with pregnant and parenting women with SUD. In addition to addressing successes and challenges, the report also highlights the importance of keeping families together, integrating culture and wraparound services, among other findings.

To read the full report, click on the above image or visit the SAMHSA website .

In August 2018, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) hosted a monthly webinar on "Update to Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS) in AI/AN's", presented by Captain Ted Hall, Ho-Chunk Nation. In the webinar, Captain Hall describes SUD as a primary medical condition or a "bio-psycho-social chronic condition of the brain". He goes on to discuss his belief that treating mothers with SUD requires a multi-facted approach, including providing them with access to behavioral health counseling, prenatal and postpartum care, and MAT.

To watch the full recorded webinar, click the above image or visit NCAI's YouTube page .