Xu, Kevin Y. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6595-695X
Schiff, Davida M.
Jones, Hendrée E.
Martin, Caitlin E.
Kelly, Jeannie C.
Bierut, Laura J.
Carter, Ebony B.
Grucza, Richard A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21 DA044744, K23 DA053507, K23 DA048169, R01 DA047867, T32 DA015035)
National Institute of Mental Health (R25 MH112473-01)
Article History
Received: 10 February 2023
Accepted: 27 June 2023
First Online: 12 July 2023
Declarations
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: All authors report no conflicts of interest. LJB is listed as an inventor on US Patent 8080371, ‘Markers for Addiction’, covering use of SNPs in determining the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of addiction. All other authors declare no financial interests. All authors do not have any financial or non-financial relationships with organizations that may have an interest in our submitted work.
: The authors acknowledge that their social identities inevitably influence their science. Perinatal substance use disorders is an area that holds special significance for the lead author, as his medical training overlapped with a surge in maternal overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, which were concomitant with rollbacks in perinatal health access in Missouri. While the lead author, who identifies as a US Chinese-American male physician-scientist, has had lived experiences of racism, he has not been pregnant, nor has personally suffered from addiction, and seeks to approach this topic area with humility. He has thus worked to build an interdisciplinary team of co-authors with a diverse array of backgrounds and areas of clinical expertise. The majority of authors, including the co-last author, are female scientists. The authors’ academic ranks include full professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and instructor/new faculty member. The institutions where the authors are employed span private universities, public universities, academic medical centers, public safety-net hospitals, and non-profit substance use disorder treatment centers in multiple states. As part of their commitment to rigorous antiracist science, the authors have sought to contextualize their results with conceptual models, cite prior work of scientists from historically marginalized groups, use people-first and affirming language, and thoroughly acknowledge the methodological limitations influencing their race/ethnicity data.
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