Abstract
(N Engl J Med. 2023;388:2391–2392) In this editorial written on the recent article by Young et al, entitled “Eat, Sleep, Console Approach or Usual Care for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal,” Barfield reviews the findings while also discussing the study limitations and need for further investigations. The original study explored using a nonpharmacologic interventions called Eat, Sleep, Console for the treatment of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. The Eat, Sleep, Console tool involves a greater emphasis on meeting the needs of the infant holistically. This approach is appealing due to rising rates of infants diagnosed with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, which puts a greater stress on hospital staff due to the need of longer hospital stays to treat the neonates. Overall, the study found that the use of the Eat, Sleep, Console intervention reduced hospital stay lengths and reduced use of pharmacologic therapy, without significant differences in safety measures assessed at 3 months of age.
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