2025 perinatal substance use

Compassionate Care through Harm Reduction: Minimizing the Risks of Substance Use in the Peripartum Period

Harm reduction strategies have become an important part of care for pregnant persons with substance use disorder. Harm reduction supports consistent care by meeting pregnant persons where they are. This webinar will describe strategies that can be applied during pregnancy.

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Meet the instructor

Ezra Lyon, MD

Ezra Lyon: Ezra Lyon, MD, is board-certified in family and addiction medicine. He practiced full-spectrum family medicine at ThedaCare-Waupaca, where he expanded opioid use disorder treatment. He joined Bridge Community Health Clinic in Wausau as Associate Director for Integrated Addiction Treatment and also directs the Wisconsin Buprenorphine Hotline.


The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Identify tools for proactively identifying pregnant people with active substance use.
  • Explain tools for overdose prevention and harm reduction for people with active substance use.
  • Critically evaluate clinic and hospital protocols to reduce stigmatization and harms associated with family separation.


Accreditation Statement

Continuing Medical Education

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Content

Planning Committee

No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Course Information

This webinar was recorded on July 3, 2025.

The expiration date for this course is October 6, 2028.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.