According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioids were involved in 80,411 overdose deaths in 2021 – more than 75% of all drug overdose deaths in the country. This is a problem ...

BACKGROUND: Neonatal abstinence syndrome is increasingly prevalent, and may be related to opioid use disorders caused by postoperative prescriptions for pain control. We assessed the association of ...

Although clinicians have traditionally used the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool to assess the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal, a newer function-based approach — the Eat, Sleep, ...

The long-term effects of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) are not well known, but some research suggests it can continue to affect a child into adolescence. NAS refers to a group of conditions an ...

Recent research adds to the evidence supporting a shift toward greater emphasis on mother-child bonding in the care of newborns who were exposed to drugs such as opioids before birth. Among babies ...