Association between individual versus community-level social vulnerability and neonatal opiate withdrawal syndrome

Abstract

Individual patient-level measures of adverse social determinants of health are associated with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), but the relative impact of community-level adverse social determinants of health remains to be defined. We examined the association between community-level social vulnerability and NOWS among pregnant individuals receiving buprenorphine (BUP) for opioid use disorder.