Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)
According to a government report, the number of babies being born in the United States addicted to opioids has tripled in the last 15 years. This is because almost every drug passes from the mother’s bloodstream through the placenta to the fetus. Illicit substances that cause drug dependence and addiction in the mother also cause the
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In a nationwide inpatient sample analysis between the years 1998 and 2011, it was discovered that opioid dependence among pregnant women has more than doubled. Researchers found that opioid-dependent pregnant women are almost 5 times as likely to die during hospitalization and have longer hospital stays than expecting women who do not take opioids. Researchers
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