The new changes in hospitals that have come in reaction to an increase in maternal opioid use have positively changed the care of infants going through withdrawal. The positive change is for both the benefit of the infant and the benefit of the hospital. By training health care workers to view nonpharmacological treatment as equivalent to medication in the treatment of the infants born with NAS, these newborns will have a speedier recovery that decreases the length that they stay in the hospital. Therefore, by decreasing the infant’s hospital length of stay, hospital costs also decrease. The medical treatments that the infants should be receiving for the treatment of NAS are no longer based on medications themselves. Instead, they are based on a holistic approach allowing the physical and emotional needs of the infant to be met through approaches involving the environment, the quality of sleep and feedings and human contact. In the case of NAS, evidence has guided treatments to a more successful approach and supported the use of nonpharmacological treatment as a replacement for medication
