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Researchers conducting a study of newborns experiencing symptoms of drug withdrawal knew the infants’ mothers would test positive for substance use. But in the course of their study they had another, surprising finding: They discovered that 1 in 4 women enrolled in the “drug-free” comparison group, whose infants were not diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), also tested positive for illicit drug use.
The study abstract, “Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Their Drug Dependent Mothers Compared to Matched Controls: We have a drug problem,” will be presented on Friday, Sept. 15, at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2017 National Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.
Researchers at Hutzel Women’s Hospital, Detroit, Michigan reviewed the medical charts of infants born with symptoms of drug withdrawal from November 2011 to December 2016. For a control group, they also reviewed the charts of babies born right before and after each of the babies diagnosed with NAS. In total, they analyzed data for 222 babies…
