(WJHL) – One of the region’s most heart-rending consequences of the opioid epidemic is declining for the second straight year. If trends hold through December, Northeast Tennessee’s eight counties ...

Effective management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) - withdrawal symptoms occurring in infants exposed to opioids in utero - requires a coordinated "cascade of care" from prevention through ...

McAllister and colleagues [1] observed some interesting characteristics in infants treated for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) after birth. Upon follow-up, many of these infants exhibited ...

In the United States, one infant is born every 15 minutes with withdrawal symptoms after being exposed to opioids before birth, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. And from ...

Babies who are born dependent on drugs have horrible withdrawal symptoms. East Tennessee Children's Hospital helps them heal. After a month at Children's Hospital, little Jason was ready to go home.

When Kacy Burgess became a foster mom, she knew little about neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), or the fact that West Virginia led the nation in drug impacted births. NAS is the withdrawal syndrome ...

Methadone, a full mu-opioid agonist, is the recommended treatment for opioid dependence during pregnancy. However, prenatal exposure to methadone is associated with a neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS ...

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome — narcotic withdrawal symptoms in infants who were exposed to drugs in the womb — is affecting thousands of families across Massachusetts. Severe symptoms at birth include ...

Trump originally said he would speak about affordability, but his cost-of-living speech could be overshadowed by European allies' frustrations. Air Force One heads back to Washington after minor ...