Study shows rise in some prenatal exposure to opiates

A new study from a state epidemiologist looks at infants who were exposed to opiates before birth. Unlike previous studies, it goes beyond the sharp rise in cases for a portion of the population to explore what happens next.
From 2004 to 2015, for Medicaid-eligible births, there was a nearly seven-fold increase in the rate of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. NAS is when babies are in withdrawal from drugs after being born. In 2004, 2.7 out of every 1,000 live births in this group had NAS, and in 20