Positive findings discovered in ETSU study of preventing neonatal syndrome in babies

An obstetrician at ETSU Health recently published significant findings of a patient care program that aims to help babies born addicted to drugs.

The report from Dr. Martin Olsen says the outpatient treatment that has expectant mothers with prior opioid use during pregnancy administered with tapered-off buprenorphine showed the addiction rate for newborns was zero with the step-down plan.

Olsen said 10 percent of expecting females in our region suffer from opioid addiction that causes neonatal abstinence syndrome in babies. Those symptoms include low birth weight, seizures, and tremors.

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