Methadone Rehabilitation

'Just flooding us': Tenn. spike in drug-dependent newborns is warning to nation
On an average day, neonatal nurse practitioner Carla Saunders faces two dozen babies born hooked on drugs, infants so sick with the pain of withdrawal that they cry nonstop, claw their faces and writhe in agony at the sound of a voice or the touch of …
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More drug war follies
Opiate withdrawal is a traumatic enough in adults, to see it in an innocent newborn provokes a visceral reaction. Say what you will about NAS, it cannot compare to fetal alcohol syndrome. Alcohol, completely legal, is by far worse for the developing …
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