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US: Born Addicted: The Number of Opioid-Addicted Babies Is Soaring (Includes video)

October 11, 2017 by Greg Cywnar

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway

US: Born Addicted: The Number of Opioid-Addicted Babies Is Soaring (Includes video)
NBC News – October 09, 2017
Nationally, the rate of American children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, a set of symptoms experienced by babies exposed to drugs in the womb, has quadrupled over the past 15 years. In East Tennessee the number of infants born with NAS has skyrocketed, with some counties reporting rates eight times the national average.
Information Gateway resource: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/bhw/casework/families-sud/children-sud/responding/nas/
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/born-addicted-number-opioid-addicted-babies-soaring-n806346

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