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ACT NOW ESC

Study Purpose:

The goal of the ACT NOW ESC Study is to compare a new approach that hospital nurseries can use to assess and care for infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, with the usual care these newborns get.

The Eating, Sleeping, and Consoling for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (ESC-NOW) approach
involves parents and other primary caregivers in the treatment of NOWS. The main idea is
that parents hold, swaddle, and rock their babies in quiet, low-light rooms. This approach
may very well lower the need for medication. ESC-NOW will include up to 3,000 infants and
their primary caregivers across nurseries in 18 states.

Study Status: Closed to recruitment

NCT: 04057820