Although the number of infants diagnosed with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) and the number of infants entering foster care have increased substantially in the US since 2009, analyses ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new and improved way to care for babies born suffering from addiction withdrawal symptoms could be coming, according to a new trial. Several local hospitals, including UC Medical ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Maternal drug use during pregnancy has become much more common over the past 25 years, a study from Australia shows. In the study, researchers found that the number of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More infants who were exposed to strong agonists and opioids with long half-lives developed neonatal opioid ...

UNM will join the study which compares medications to treat NOWS. The university reports that recently doctors have discovered that in most instances, babies will do better when in the room with their ...

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 ...

On learning last year she was pregnant with her second child, Cailyn Morreale was overcome with fear and trepidation. “I was so scared,” said Morreale, a resident of the small western North Carolina ...

Weekly injections led to higher opioid abstinence rate, with good infant outcomes ...

A new study into the race and socio-demographics of newborns with symptoms of opioid withdrawal shows that it is disproportionately higher among white newborns whose mothers are Medicaid enrollees and ...