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July 23, 2015
MORE BABIES ARRIVE DEPENDENT ON DRUGS

Being born into suffering is becoming ever more common as research shows a continuing surge in drug-dependent infants amid a national epidemic of pain pill and now heroin abuse, with no end in sight.


 Admissions of these babies to U.S. neonatal intensive care units nearly quadrupled from 2004 through 2013, from seven to 27 per 1,000 admissions, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found. 

 
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