neonatal abstinence syndrome

Jamie Morton is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Iowa and a former nurse. She led a study that found stigma can impact health outcomes of opioid-dependent moms.

Several Missouri communities were recently awarded grant funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to address opioid overdoses and neonatal abstinence syndrome in rural communities.

Nurse Catherine “Bizz” Grimes moves like her name sounds: at a frenetic pace. She darts across the hall from the prenatal diagnosis clinic at Indiana...

In 2016 nearly 600 Missouri babies were born addicted to drugs. The condition, know as neonatal abstinence syndrome, has spiked in the state increasing by…