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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 May 27.
Published before final editing as: J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2026 May 1:10.1097/DBP.0000000000001486. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001486

Table 2.

EI Referral and Enrollment for Infants and Toddlers Born January 1, 2013 Through December 31, 2017 in MA

Outcome Any Substance
Exposure
n = 6565
With NAS
Diagnosis
4843
Without NAS
Diagnosis
1722
Without Substance
Exposure
340,189
p (Substance-Exposed
Newborns with NAS vs without
NAS)
p (Any Substance Exposure vs
without Substance exposure)
N (Column Percent) or
Mean (SD)
Referred 5602 (85.3) 4242 (87.6) 1360 (79.0) 117,603 (34.6) <0.001 <0.001
Enrolled (among referred) 2775 (49.5) 2255 (53.2) 520 (38.2) 66,688 (56.7) <0.001 <0.001
Duration of enrollment (d)
 <183 1158 (42.3) 939 (42.2) 219 (42.9) 27,751 (42.5) 0.916 0.004
 183–365 1092 (39.9) 888 (39.9) 204 (39.9) 27,382 (41.9)
 >365 488 (17.8) 400 (18.0) 88 (17.2) 10,196 (15.6)

EI, early intervention; MA, Massachusetts; NAS, neonatal abstinence syndrome.