SAN FRANCISCO — Use of a functional scoring system dramatically reduced morphine treatment and length of stay among infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) compared with the widely used ...

Some researchers have used a more liberal definition of the neonatal abstinence syndrome that includes exposure to nonopioid substances. This can be problematic because the assessment tools for the ...

Although morphine is the drug almost exclusively used for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), emerging data suggest that buprenorphine may be an acceptable and perhaps safer alternative. The two ...

Each year in the US ∼50 000 neonates receive inpatient pharmacotherapy for the treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The objective of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of a ...

A quality improvement (QI) initiative that focused on using non-pharmacologic approaches to care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) yielded positive short-term outcomes for both the ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Over the last decade, the use of opioid pain relievers in the United States and Tennessee has increased rapidly. Accompanying that increase in drug use has been an increase in ...