Hospitals Seeing More Prescription Drug Addicted Babies

Published July 24, 2010

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Hospitals seeing more prescription drug addicted babies
SEATTLE – Prescription drug abuse is nothing new, but it’s a problem that is growing and now babies are paying the price. Hospitals are delivering more newborns addicted to the powerful opiates than ever before. At any given moment, hospitals like Harborview Medical Center in Seattle are delivering babies that are addicted and more and more of them are withdrawing from prescription pills …