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Objectives: The prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) during pregnancy is increasing.
Practical recommendations will help providers treat pregnant women with OUD and reduce …

A Focused Update of the ASAM National Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Opioid Use
Disorder is published in the current issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The focused …

Background: The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) revised the 2015 version of the
substance use disorder (SUD) clinical protocol to review the evidence and provide updated …

Women have unique, currently unmet, needs that impact their substance use initiation, SUD
development trajectories, and harms related to drug and alcohol use. Implementing and …

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) refers to a constellation of signs that are present in
some newborn infants resulting from the abrupt cessation of passive transfer of maternal …

The opioid crisis has reached an unprecedented magnitude in the United States and
worldwide, and data on opioid use and misuse in the obstetric population are extremely …

Background Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) includes an array of symptoms impacting
opioid-exposed newborns (OEN) owing to postnatal withdrawal from in utero substance …

Background: As opioid abuse increases in the United States, the rate of neonatal abstinence
syndrome (NAS) rises dramatically. Caring for infants with NAS and their families is a …

Breastfeeding offers many benefits to both mother and baby. Breastfeeding is generally
recommended for mothers of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) unless some …