Increasing Incidence and Geographic Distribution of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: United States 2009-2012

OBJECTIVE: Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a postnatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, increased 3-fold from 2000 to 2009. Since 2009, opioid pain reliever prescriptions and complications increased markedly throughout the US. Understanding recent changes in NAS and its geographic variability would i...

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Published in:J Perinatol
Main Authors: Patrick, Stephen W., Davis, Matthew M., Lehman, Christoph U., Cooper, William O.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520760/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25927272
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jp.2015.36
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