Tiny Opioid Patients Need Help Easing Into Life
March 27, 2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/25/471279600/tiny-opioid-patients-need-help-easing-into-life
Lexi, 2 weeks old, is experiencing symptoms of opioid withdrawal. Her mother took methadone to wean herself from heroin when she got pregnant, just as doctors advised. But now the hospital team has to wean newborn Lexi from the methadone.
As rates of opioid addiction have continued to climb in the U.S., the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has gone up, too — by five-fold from 2000 to 2012, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Advertisements
