Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face
into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her
mouth.
The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being
treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight
addiction to powerful prescription painkillers.
Disturbing new
research says the number of U.S. babies born with signs of opiate drug
withdrawal has tripled in a decade because of a surge in pregnant
women's use of legal and illegal narcotics, including Vicodin, OxyContin
and heroin, researchers say. It is the first national study of the
problem.
The number of newborns with withdrawal symptoms
increased from a little more than 1 per 1,000 babies sent home from the
hospital in 2000 to more than 3 per 1,000 in 2009, the study found. More
than 13,000 U.S. infants were affected in 2009, the researchers
estimated.
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Them boys that make the pills we be coming for you one day.
ReplyDeleteIts a systamatic irradication of the problem, be efficient is my motto.
ReplyDeleteYou hurt babies you should be hurt yourself ten fold.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day it was H and you stuck a needle in your arm,sick huh. Now you swallow a pill with some OJ. No social stigma. Both JUNKIES. Its OK now because you aint shotting up on the floor of some damn piss filled bathroom floor. Same thing, keep it up and you will find that piss floor.
ReplyDeleteBrother if that aint rock bottom what is, Death thats what. Its very hard to care about someone over some time that is hell bent on killing themselves. You say do somewhere else because you cant be part of my life and around the ones I love if you are a fkn JUNKIE, go away before I hurt you. Building over the lsat five years I have tryed but to friends have failed me and I have to say bye-bye JUNKY. It hurts me but I have other people that I am responsible for. Your not welcome here anymore. Tough love huh, bet it hurt me more then them.
ReplyDeleteFor a minute anyway.
ReplyDeleteI have adopted one of these babies.....we are lucky and blessed but so sad to read these statistics
ReplyDeleteYou can not save everyone, save the babies. They are tommorow.
ReplyDeleteBeen down that road once myself. Big A no dope we dont talk about the ig A round here. It done matter and never did.
ReplyDeleteSomeone has to fill the void.
ReplyDeletejunkie moms and babies in withdrawal have been around a looong time. Nothing new here whether or not the drug is a script.
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