Pennsylvania Code
Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part V - Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
Chapter 715 - STANDARDS FOR APPROVAL OF NARCOTIC TREATMENT PROGRAM
Section 715.10 - Pregnant patients
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 12, March 23, 2024
(a) A narcotic treatment program may place a pregnant patient, regardless of age, who has had a documented narcotic dependency in the past and who may return to narcotic dependency, on a comprehensive maintenance regime.
(b) A narcotic treatment program shall give pregnant patients the opportunity for prenatal care either by the narcotic treatment program or by referral to appropriate health-care providers.
(c) Counseling records and other appropriate patients records shall reflect the nature of prenatal support provided by the narcotic treatment program.
(d) Within 3 months after termination of pregnancy, the narcotic treatment physician shall enter an evaluation of the patient's treatment status into her record and state whether she should remain in comprehensive maintenance treatment or receive detoxification treatment.
(e) A patient who is or becomes pregnant may not be started or continued on LAAM, except by the written order of a narcotic treatment physician who determines that LAAM is the best therapy for that patient.
(f) The narcotic treatment program shall ensure that each female patient is fully informed of the possible risk to her or her unborn child from continued use of illicit drugs and from use of, or withdrawal from a narcotic drug administered or dispensed by the program in comprehensive maintenance or detoxification treatment.