Ten years ago, infants born with drug addictions was associated with street drugs. But the rise of prescription drug addiction in the past ten years has resulted in a tripling of the number of newborns born addicted to painkillers, and a five-fold increase in the number born addicted to opiates, making “neonatal abstinence syndrome” a problem that now transcends social class.
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