This five-week-old boy is one of nearly 300 infants a year treated for opioid withdrawal at Cabell Huntington Hospital in West Virginia. He sleeps under the soothing touch of his mother ...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. On learning last year she was pregnant with her second child, Cailyn ...

Among infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), median length of treatment was 15 days for infants who ...

East Tennessee State University’s Dr. Brenda Louw recently served as editor of a new book to help speech-language ...

and interdisciplinary support for children and families diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS), or who are suspected of being impacted by opioid ...

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Objectives Analgesia and sedation are common therapies in pediatric critical care, and rapid titration of these medications is associated with iatrogenic withdrawal syndrome. We performed a ...

Prolonged use during pregnancy can result in neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, which may be life-threatening. Advise the patient of the risk of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and treat ...

Paramedics used Naloxone and CPR to stabilize the 2-month-old twin infants and transported them ... "Even though opioid-involved deaths were down in general, the fentanyl deaths involved deaths ...

as well as to manage cravings and anxiety during the post-withdrawal period. Opioid overdose mortality has surged in recent years, largely due to fentanyl. Drug overdose deaths increased from 2019 ...

Buprenorphine alleviates opioid withdrawal symptoms like vomiting and anxiety, as well as cravings, to reduce the chances of an overdose. Naloxone:Hundreds of civilians used Narcan to save ...