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

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 …

With rare exception, breastfeeding is the optimal way to feed infants, and has special
benefits for women and infants with perinatal opioid exposure. Infants breastfed and/or fed …

Abstract The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative recommends that all mothers be shown how to
breastfeed, even when mothers and newborns are separated. Most incarcerated women are …

Background: Several professional health organizations have made statements endorsing
the safety of breastfeeding for women taking medication-assisted treatment for an opioid use …

The growing opioid crisis in the United States affects childbearing women and their infants at
an alarming rate. Substance use disorders in pregnancy have transitioned from a topic …

Introduction Opioid use is epidemic in the United States. Opioid use disorder (OUD) in
pregnancy, as well as neonatal abstinence syndrome, has quadrupled in the last decade …

Pregnant women and developing infants are understudied populations in the opioid crisis,
despite the rise in opioid use during pregnancy. Maternal opioid use results in diverse …

800 Journal of Human Lactation 34 (4) and manageable group of withdrawal symptoms
observed in infants who have been prenatally exposed to opioids (Cleveland, 2017–2019; …

Since 1972, the year of the inaugural issue of Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal
Nursing, substance use during pregnancy has remained a public health concern in the …