Newborn Buprenorphine Abstinence: Get Real!
First Posted 2/6/2014 A few weeks ago I wrote about the differing standards of care for women who deliver babies while treated with buprenorphine for opioid dependence. Some hospitals require newborns exposed to buprenorphine to stay in the neonatal ICU for arbitrary length of time. Intravenous infusions of opioid agonists are given to infants whose … [Read more…]