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More than 1,500 babies are born addicted to drugs every year, NHS figures show.
They include cases where doctors have been forced to give opiates to babies in order to wean them off heroin.
More than 7,800 newborns have been recorded with "neonatal withdrawal symptoms" in the last five years, effectively putting them into cold turkey after becoming dependent on drugs their mothers took during pregnancy.
They include 6,599 cases in England, 738 in Scotland and 464 cases in Wales, according to data obtained by the Mirror.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/02/1500-uk-babies-born-addicted-to-drugs-nhs
Poor wee mites
They include cases where doctors have been forced to give opiates to babies in order to wean them off heroin.
More than 7,800 newborns have been recorded with "neonatal withdrawal symptoms" in the last five years, effectively putting them into cold turkey after becoming dependent on drugs their mothers took during pregnancy.
They include 6,599 cases in England, 738 in Scotland and 464 cases in Wales, according to data obtained by the Mirror.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/02/1500-uk-babies-born-addicted-to-drugs-nhs
Poor wee mites