New Dartmouth-Hitchcock Research Helps Babies Born With Opiate Dependencies – VPR

Read article - Quotes Allison Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about her recent research on babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) as a result of their mother's opiate use. Her study showed that a different method for neo-natal care can address infants' symptoms more effectively. "Even using the same medication in different settings, the babies had very different lengths of stay," says Holmes. "So looking that as a whole you think, 'Maybe it's not the medication that matters but more the environment of care.'"