By Market Intelligence Team

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) together with leading primary care professionals, researchers, and policy experts led the development of a standard clinical definition for opioid medication withdrawal in infants to help improve care. It is accompanied with a set of foundational principles that outlines bioethical uses for the definition, distinctly centering around identifying clinical and supportive care needs of mothers and their infants, using an evidence-based, compassionate, and equitable approach. Across the U.S., the number of mothers with opioid medication-related diagnoses documented at delivery increased approximately 130% from 2010 to 2017, according to a 2021 report.…