NIH-funded study to focus on newborns affected by opioids

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) The National Institutes of Health is funding a new study to evaluate treatment options for newborns with opioid withdrawal syndrome, a condition caused by exposure to opioids during pregnancy. Currently, health care providers in the United States lack standard, evidence-based treatments for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, despite states reporting more cases in recent years. The study, called Advancing Clin...