As heroin addiction increases across the United States, dependency on other opioids is also growing. Those are prescription medications like morphine, Vicodin, OxyContin, codeine, and other similar drugs. With pregnant addicts, the drugs pass through the placenta, and the baby becomes an opioid addict like its mother. Because of the proliferation of these opioids, a frighteningly increasing number of drug dependent infants are thrown into addiction before they take their first breath.
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