Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
[Pages:30]Opioid use in pregnancy and Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal
Syndrome (NOWS)
Morissa Ladinsky, MD Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine UAB
Source: CDC Drug poisoning mortality statistics. Graphic by Alex Newman.
US/Alabama 2019 Drug Threat Assessment
Alabama Operations Center / Gulf Coast HIDTA, June, 2018/CNN
Objectives
1. Understand the magnitude, medicine and scope of neonatal abstinence syndrome.
2. Learn concrete, data driven public health measures and best practice approaches to the immense challenge of care for opioid exposed infants.
3. View current and future trends in comprehensive management of NOWS.
Dopamine
? Central power driver. Essence of being human
? Memory (if DA is present, we remember it).
? Regulates how we perceive pleasure.
? Sleep and wakefulness
? Cognition (DA in frontal lobe)
? Pleasure and drive to seek it.
? Food ? Sex ? Winning a competition
? Cocaine ? Meth ? Opioids ? Heroin
Methamphetamine in pregnancy
? Low birthweight ? Shorter gestational age ? Maternal HTN/pre-e ? Abruption (10%) ? Rare reports of ICH ? Rare and brief withdrawal
? Longer term learning disability ? ADHD
"STOPPING MA AT ANY TIME DURING PREGNANCY IMPROVES OUTCOMES"
Negative outcomes on the developing child are due to the meth's effect on mother's systems.
Opioids work via specific RECEPTORS
? Brainstem: Basic life sustaining functions (sleep, breathing, HR)
? Limbic System: Emotional center (pleasure, mood, attitude)
? Cerebral Cortex ? Autonomic neurons (GI, skin,
muscle)
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