Number of Newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Continued To Increase Through 2016

Number of Newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Continued To Increase Through 2016 (PDF, 258.55 KB)

Text Description: The number of babies born each year with withdrawal symptoms from their mother’s drug dependence, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, nearly doubled from 2008 to 2014, according to data from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. In 2016, more than 25,000 babies were born with withdrawal symptoms from drug dependence compared with more than 8,500 in 2008. These trends are taken from HCUP’s State Inpatient Databases, which are developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by AHRQ.

Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Trends in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Births in the United States (PDF, 186 KB).