Optimizing Ethics Engagement in Research: Learning from the Ethical Complexities of Studying Opioid Use in Pregnancy
Seema Shah, Marielle S. Gross, Camille Nebeker
Abstract
Research on opioid use in pregnancy is critically important to understand how the opioid epidemic has affected a generation of children, but also raises significant ethical and legal challenges. Embedded ethicists can help to fill the gaps in ethics oversight for such research, but further guidance is needed to help strike the balance between integration and independence.
Topics & Concepts
OpioidIndependence (probability theory)Engineering ethicsEthical issuesResearch ethicsOpioid epidemicPregnancyPsychologyMedicinePolitical scienceEngineeringBiologyGeneticsInternal medicineStatisticsMathematicsReceptorPrenatal Substance Exposure EffectsEthics in Clinical ResearchGlobal Maternal and Child Health