Early Treatment for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Palliative Approach.

 To describe medical, safety, and health care utilization outcomes associated with an early treatment model for neonatal opioid withdrawal.  This is a retrospective review of 117 opioid-exposed infants born in a large regional hospital and treated in the level I nursery with methadone initiated within 48 hours of birth.  For this cohort, mean length of stay was 8.