Infants exposed to both opioids and psychotropic drugs prenatally have a 30% to 60% increased risk for neonatal withdrawal, a study has found.

In Rhode Island, a neighbor of Massachusetts, the number of babies being born with what is known as neonatal abstinence syndrome--essentially drug addicition and withdrawal--has doubled between ...

For newborns, no standard withdrawal therapy exists based on what research says is best. It can take weeks in many cases to wean the infants off the narcotic drugs their mothers misused or the ...

An increasing number of babies across the country are born addicted to opioids and require intensive care, according to a study analyzing MEDNAX Clinical Data Warehouse statistics from 299 neonatal ...

But Ostfeld-Johns said they found they didn’t need the drug tests to identify babies who might, for example, develop symptoms of opioid withdrawal that would require special care.

A Mobile woman is accused of leaving her newborn, who tested positive for drugs, at the hospital after giving birth.

More than 1,000 newborns have received treatment in England’s hospitals each year since 2014 after experiencing withdrawal symptoms from addictive substances.

One reason babies go unprotected: Many states don’t require hospitals to report drug-dependent newborns if the mother was taking methadone, painkillers or other narcotics prescribed by a doctor.

A longtime resource to help drug-exposed newborns said it was blindsided by Washington state and was told it has to shut down at the end of the month.

The newborn is showing signs of withdrawal because of the mother’s drug use, according to Susman. In 2022, Jones gave birth to another newborn who also tested positive for cocaine and opioids.

Gov. Mike DeWine wants kratom, a substance sold in gas stations and smoke shops across Ohio, banned and removed from shelves. Here's what to know.