More Babies Born Addicted to Opiates

More babies in the U.S. are being born with symptoms of opiate withdrawal than were seen a decade ago, researchers found. The number of newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) tripled between 2000 and 2009, and the number of mothers using opiates at the time of delivery rose five-fold over that period, Dr. Stephen Patrick of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and colleagues reported online in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "This serves as a reminder that this is...Full Story