Silent Addiction: Babies at Risk
Silent addiction: Babies at risk
The babies become dependent upon the drugs as they course through the mother's bloodstream and when they are born, suffer withdrawal. And just as the number of narcotic prescriptions has exploded in the last decade, so has the number of babies born …
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The Truth Behind America's Pain Pill Epidemic
They knew that after a not-very-long period of time, if their patients wanted to go off the medications, they would suffer the misery of opioid withdrawal. So it just didn't add up- better to cope with the pain … As Dr. Anna Lembke noted in a recent …
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Study explores genetic factors in neonatal abstinence syndrome
In a prospective multicenter study, investigators found that, among infants with in utero opioid exposure, variants in 2 genes were associated with shorter length of hospital stay and less need for treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The …
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