European police in a multinational coordinated effort arrested over 5 dozen persons from a number of countries and seized about 1300 pounds of heroin recently.  Reports are the Balkan route one of the methodologies of focus.
Descriptions of culmination are EMPACT performance.
Earlier reports of the event made in April 2013, and others under page heading in November 2013.

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This is a set of excerpts from articles found ranked at easy access about babies born addicted to drugs, a popular name for a medical condition of this sort is NAS, which stands for neonatal abstinence syndrome.  Shocking numbers include statements such as, 'one addicted baby born an hour', and '1out of 13 babies is an addict'.

'Just flooding us': Tenn. spike in drug-dependent newborns is warning to nation

 Oct. 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM ET

On an average day, neonatal nurse practitioner Carla Saunder...
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