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Neonatal abstinence syndrome rates

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome rates

A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on April 30, 2012, said rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome, or babies dependent on drugs their mothers were addicted to, have tripled in the past decade.

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