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Dayton Daily News
The youngest
heroin addicts aren’t even born yet.
Still in the womb, they are exposed to opiates by expectant mothers
with drug habits sometimes so insatiable and all consuming the
pregnancy goes undetected for months.
And, fueled by opioid use by pregnant women, more of these young
addicts are born every day. Nearly 1,700 drug-exposed babies were born
in Ohio in 2013, a nearly nine-fold increase from 2004, according to
the Ohio Department of Health.
The babies often require complex — and expensive — medical care to wean
them off drugs, requiring lengthy hospital stays that can run into the
tens of thousands of dollars...
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