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Warrant: Mother Exposed Child to Heroin

Warrant: Mother exposed child to heroin
Turner stressed the dangers of heroin use during pregnancy, which includes premature birth, low birth weight, breathing difficulties, bleeding within the brain and infant death. Babies can also be born addicted to heroin and can suffer from withdrawal …
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The dilemma of prescription opioids: Shifting attitudes towards the pain patient
Last month's tragic death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from an overdose has heightened awareness of the social burden of addiction and raised anxieties about prescription opioids as “gateway” drugs to heroin. In 1996, the Food and Drug …
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