NIH-led workshop addresses opioid misuse during pregnancy

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Research is essential to determining how best to screen pregnant women for opioid use disorder, to treat pregnant women who have the disorder, and to care for infants as they experience withdrawal symptoms, according to experts convened for a National Institutes of Health workshop in April 2016. A summary of the workshop, co-sponsored by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human ...