Hospitals Seeing More Babies Born Exposed to Prescription Drugs
Posted By Dr. Mercola | May 02 2012 | 801 views
In one of the most startling news reports yet on the overuse of opioid drugs in America, a new study shows that newborns suffering from withdrawal symptoms due to their mothers' use of prescription painkillers tripled between 2000 and 2009. Over the same time period the number of women using these drugs quintupled.
"This serves as a reminder that this is really a public health emergency," lead author Dr. Stephen Patrick of the University of Michigan told JAMA Report. The study also found that the withdrawal problems appear to affect poor children disproportionately: 78 percent of the drug-addicted babies were born to mothers on Medicaid (an indication of poverty level), compared to 46 percent born to mothers receiving no public aid.
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