About one baby born each hour addicted to opiate drugs in U.S.
About one baby is born every hour addicted to opiate drugs in the United States, according to new research from University of Michigan physicians.
In the research, U-M physicians found that diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome, a drug withdrawal syndrome among new-borns, almost tripled between 2000 and 2009.
By 2009, the estimated number of new-borns with the syndrome was 13,539
