LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA.
DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY, AND REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, USA.
J Law Med Ethics. 2022;50(2):339-347. doi: 10.1017/jme.2022.61.
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.
研究孕期阿片类药物使用对于了解阿片类药物泛滥如何影响了一代儿童至关重要,但也提出了重大的伦理和法律挑战。嵌入式伦理学家可以帮助填补此类研究的伦理监督空白,但需要进一步的指导,以帮助在整合和独立之间取得平衡。