A central goal of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is the development of clinical
protocols for managing common medical problems that may impact breastfeeding success …

The purpose of this review is to describe how pregnant and postpartum women with
substance use disorders (SUDs) experience health care encounters in prenatal care, labor …

In April 2016, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development invited experts to a workshop to address numerous knowledge gaps and to …

Pregnancy is an opportune time to identify opioid dependence, facilitate conversion to
opioid maintenance treatment, and coordinate care with specialists in addiction medicine …

Objective To evaluate the impact of women-centered substance abuse treatment
programming on outcomes among pregnant women with opioid use disorder (OUD) …

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 …

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

Although there is an abundance of interventional studies to increase breastfeeding rates,
little is known about how to support and promote breastfeeding among mothers on opioid …

Background Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) rates have dramatically increased.
Breastfeeding is a nonpharmacological intervention that may be beneficial, reducing NAS …

Objective To critically appraise and synthesize existing studies on the relationship between
newborn feeding method and neonatal outcomes related to neonatal abstinence syndrome …