Aims Through a novel synthesis of the literature and our own clinical experience, we have
derived a set of evidence‐based recommendations for consideration as guidance in the …

Most women using heroin are of reproductive age with major risks for their infants. We
review clinical and experimental data on fetal, neonatal and postnatal complications …

Objective: Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a postnatal opioid withdrawal syndrome,
increased threefold from 2000 to 2009. Since 2009, opioid pain reliever prescriptions and …

Many mothers are inappropriately advised to discontinue breastfeeding or avoid taking
essential medications because of fears of adverse effects on their infants. This cautious …

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 …

Context Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a postnatal drug withdrawal syndrome
primarily caused by maternal opiate use. No national estimates are available for the …

Aim To examine the rate and duration of breastfeeding in a cohort of women in opioid
maintenance treatment (OMT) in Norway, as well as the effect of breastfeeding on the …

Objective To examine opioid replacement therapy in pregnancy and effect on neonatal
outcomes, including length of hospital stay for neonatal abstinence syndrome. Design …

General hospital clinicians frequently deal with injecting drug users because substance use
has diverse medical and psychiatric complications. Non-specialist clinicians often initiate …

OBJECTIVE. In a sample of methadone-maintained breastfeeding women and a matched
group of formula-feeding women, this study evaluated concentrations of methadone in …