Apply Give

Other ways to search: Events Calendar | UTHSC

 UT study finds Tennessee has work to do in preventing babies born addicted to opioids

Written by Communications and Marketing

|

A new study examining the impact of opioid use during pregnancy finds use is on the rise and Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a public health epidemic. According to researchers from the University of Tennessee’s College of Nursing and The University of Alabama’s School of Public Health, newborns hospitalized due to drug withdrawal (NAS), saw a five-fold increase from 2004-2014. During that time period, hospitalizations nationwide jumped from 1.5 for every 1,000 live births to 8.0 per 1,000 live births. In Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Alabama, NAS rates in 2015 were nearly 3 times the national average of 5.8 per 1,000 live births.

Top Publishers