doctors see increase in babies born with addictions
… and gynecologist at Mercy Medical Center, has been delivering babies who begin to experience withdrawal symptoms days or hours after being born to mothers who addicted to heroin or other opiates, or are on an opiate replacement treatment program.
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Brittany Ozarowski, NY Woman Who Faked Cancer Diagnosis To Fund Heroin …
Besides paying back the money in equitable restitution, she will need to do community service and enter into a 24-month inpatient and outpatient drug addiction treatment program. Failure to comply will result in four years of imprisonment. Still, some …
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This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?
By federal law, methadone must be delivered in a highly-structured opiate addiction program. It cannot be delivered in a physician's office. Buprenorphine can be. The Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 2000 was revolutionary in its specific intention to allow …
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