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Ohio to Require Reporting of Drug-Addicted Babies

Ohio to require reporting of drug-addicted babies
… often on Medicaid, can be costly to the system. Jones said officials hope to use the information to help measure opiate and illegal drug abuse across the state and better target resources to help women and babies struggling from addiction …
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Peaches Geldof: Celebrity whose ebullience and intelligence were scarred by a
Three years later Paula Yates herself was dead of a heroin overdose. The daisy-chain … It was a spotlight from which she was never able, or never willing, to withdraw. Indeed … It provided a link to a photo of the infant Peaches in Paula Yates's …
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Peaches had no hope for normal life after being thrust so early into spotlight
Three years later, Paula Yates was dead of a heroin overdose. The daisy-chain … It was a spotlight from which she was never able, or never willing, to withdraw. Indeed, it was … It provided a link to a photo of the infant Peaches in Paula Yates's …
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Drug addicted babies increasing in Boston
These babies experience what is called “neonatal abstinence syndrome,” suffering withdrawal pains as a result of exposure to illegal opiates such as heroin or prescription drugs such as Oxycontin or methadone, according to a first of its kind survey of …
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