Increasing Incidence of the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in U.S. Neonatal ICUs

The incidence of the neonatal abstinence syndrome, a drug-withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs after in utero exposure to opioids, is known to have increased during the past decade. However, recent trends in the incidence of the syndrome and changes in demographic characteristics and hospital treatment of these infants have not been well characterized.Using multiple cross-sectional analyses and a deidentified data set, we analyzed data...