“This is my life’s purpose,” she says. “This is where my heart comes alive, where I need to be.” She is a peer recovery partner to women with substance use disorder who are pregnant, parenting, and seeking custody.
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Beck Klassen
She has worked in addiction medicine for 20 years. As we spoke, we reflected on a "Journey Map" inspired by the lives of those with pregnancy-associated death in Maine. The composite patient’s “journey” was created by the Maine Maternal, Fetal, and Infant Mortality Review Panel to humanize the study’s data.