Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long and costly hospitalizations can occur for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. NICU and pharmacologic use ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome is often assessed with the 50-year-old Finnegan scoring tool. Researchers ...

Infants exposed to opioids and psychotropic drugs during pregnancy have a 30% to 60% higher risk of experiencing neonatal withdrawal, a study has found. That risk doubles when multiple psychotropic ...

Two babies, born 15 months apart to the same young woman overcoming opioid addiction. Two very different treatments. Sarah Sherbert's first child was whisked away to a hospital special-care nursery ...

Pregnant women treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) experienced significantly better outcomes for themselves and their infants than women not treated with buprenorphine during ...

Length of treatment and neurobehavioral scores did not significantly differ between infants with prenatal opioid exposure randomized to either clonidine or morphine, researchers found. Among infants ...

As the opioid crisis continues, the number of babies born with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) – a condition that affects infants whose mothers used opioids during pregnancy – has risen ...

USA: A large multisite cohort study has found that antenatal opioid exposure was associated with impaired cerebral cortical ...

The number of U.S. infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome — a term encapsulating the host of health problems newborns experience when their mothers use opioids during pregnancy — increased ...