Peter Johnson, Erwin Cabacungan, Ke Yan, Mahua Dasgupta, Jennifer Broad, Madeline Kemp, Kelsey Ryan
INTRODUCTION: Wisconsin experienced overlapping and accelerating epidemics of opioid use and COVID-19 after March 2020. We hypothesized that Wisconsin neonatal abstinence syndrome rates increased after March 2020 alongside other markers of opioid burden. METHODS: Retrospective cohort analysis examined deidentified Wisconsin census, birth certificate, death certificate, hospital discharge, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, emergency medical service run, and COVID-19 diagnosis records spanning January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2021...
December 2023: WMJ: Official Publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin