Environmental measures aimed at easing the symptoms of neonates with severe abstinence syndrome had little impact, but providing a quiet sleep environment helped in mild cases.
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Neonatal abstinence syndrome does not happen in prenatal cocaine exposure ( with babies exposed to cocaine in utero ) in the sense that such symptoms are difficult to separate in the context of other factors such as prematurity or prenatal exposure to other drugs.
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Its characteristics include ( i ) a desire ( but not a compulsion ) to continue taking the drug for the sense of improved well-being which it engenders; ( ii ) little or no tendency to increase the dose; ( iii ) some degree of psychic dependence on the effect of the drug, but absence of physical dependence and hence of an abstinence syndrome [ withdrawal ], and ( iv ) detrimental effects, if any, primarily on the individual ."
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