The Trends of Babies Born Addicted to Drugs is Startling
Posted by HCN on Tuesday, October 29, 2013
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 Saunders faces two dozen babies born hooked on drugs, infants so sick with the pain of withdrawal that they cry nonstop, claw their faces and writhe in agony at the sound of a voice or the touch of hand. But that’s just the average.
“Today, it may be even higher,” says Saunders, who staffs the 60-bed intensive care unit at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tenn. “It’s been as high as 37.”
The babies are part of a grim trend in Tennessee, where a new report shows that the number of newborns dependent on drugs their mothers took during pregnancy is higher than ever — and experts say it should be a warning to the rest of the nation.
“At the current rate this epidemic is progressing, we are projecting more than 800 drug-dependent newborns by the end of this year,” said Dr. John Dreyzehner, the commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Health.
Source and full story here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/just-flooding-us-tenn-spike-drug-dependent-newborns-warning-nation-8C11375654
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Number of babies born addicted to drugs increasing
New research shows the number of babies born addicted to drugs, including prescription medications, has tripled in the past decade.
It's more than 13,000 infants a year, or one drug-addicted baby born each hour...
Doctors in southeast Missouri said babies born addicted to prescription drugs, or any drug, is a growing problem in the area....
According to doctors, effects from the pre-birth drug use include shaking, seizures, low birth weight, sleeping problems and brain damage, to name a few. It's also been linked to lower IQ levels and difficulties in school...
Copyright date on webpage of original article 2012
Source and full story here:
http://www.americanownews.com/story/19538627/number-of-babies-born-addicted-to-drugs-increasing
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Hospitals work to wean babies born addicted to drugs
The cause of their ailments: prescription opiates their mothers took during pregnancy...
America's prescription drug abuse epidemic has caused a spike in the number of addicted mothers – and newborns experiencing withdrawal symptoms – delivering in maternity wards across the country...
At New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the number of newborns treated or monitored for drug withdrawal shot up 119 percent in three years, from 31 in 2009 to 68 in 2012. Many must be painstakingly weaned off whatever their mother used, extending hospital stays and driving up medical costs.
National numbers
The phenomenon is by no means Wilmington's alone. A study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the number of babies that underwent withdrawal, a condition known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, tripled from 2000 to 2009, when 13,539 were born, or nearly two every hour.
Updated:
Published: Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 6:18 p.m.
Source and full story here:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20130721/ARTICLES/130719582
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Clinic to help drug-addicted babies
Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.
SARASOTA - Even when their mothers successfully hide it — sometimes from their own obstetricians — their newborns scream...
Mother is addicted to prescription drugs, and so is her miserable, crying, inconsolable infant.
Skyrocketing numbers of babies have been born since about 2008 at Sarasota Memorial Hospital dependent on opioid drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and heroin...
Source and full story here:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130618/article/130619620
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June 5, 2013
Drug-addicted babies up at some W.Va. hospitals
Associated Press
CHARLESTON — Some hospitals in West Virginia are seeing an increase in the number of babies born with drug addictions...
Source and full story here:
http://www.register-herald.com/todaysfrontpage/x697473273/Drug-addicted-babies-up-at-some-W-Va-hospitals
HCN article/blog post time 4:50pm EST
'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 Saunders faces two dozen babies born hooked on drugs, infants so sick with the pain of withdrawal that they cry nonstop, claw their faces and writhe in agony at the sound of a voice or the touch of hand. But that’s just the average.
“Today, it may be even higher,” says Saunders, who staffs the 60-bed intensive care unit at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tenn. “It’s been as high as 37.”
The babies are part of a grim trend in Tennessee, where a new report shows that the number of newborns dependent on drugs their mothers took during pregnancy is higher than ever — and experts say it should be a warning to the rest of the nation.
“At the current rate this epidemic is progressing, we are projecting more than 800 drug-dependent newborns by the end of this year,” said Dr. John Dreyzehner, the commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Health.
Source and full story here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/just-flooding-us-tenn-spike-drug-dependent-newborns-warning-nation-8C11375654
>>>
Number of babies born addicted to drugs increasing
New research shows the number of babies born addicted to drugs, including prescription medications, has tripled in the past decade.
It's more than 13,000 infants a year, or one drug-addicted baby born each hour...
Doctors in southeast Missouri said babies born addicted to prescription drugs, or any drug, is a growing problem in the area....
According to doctors, effects from the pre-birth drug use include shaking, seizures, low birth weight, sleeping problems and brain damage, to name a few. It's also been linked to lower IQ levels and difficulties in school...
Copyright date on webpage of original article 2012
Source and full story here:
http://www.americanownews.com/story/19538627/number-of-babies-born-addicted-to-drugs-increasing
>>>
Hospitals work to wean babies born addicted to drugs
The cause of their ailments: prescription opiates their mothers took during pregnancy...
America's prescription drug abuse epidemic has caused a spike in the number of addicted mothers – and newborns experiencing withdrawal symptoms – delivering in maternity wards across the country...
At New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the number of newborns treated or monitored for drug withdrawal shot up 119 percent in three years, from 31 in 2009 to 68 in 2012. Many must be painstakingly weaned off whatever their mother used, extending hospital stays and driving up medical costs.
National numbers
The phenomenon is by no means Wilmington's alone. A study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the number of babies that underwent withdrawal, a condition known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, tripled from 2000 to 2009, when 13,539 were born, or nearly two every hour.
Updated:
Published: Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 6:18 p.m.
Source and full story here:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20130721/ARTICLES/130719582
>>>
Clinic to help drug-addicted babies
Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.
SARASOTA - Even when their mothers successfully hide it — sometimes from their own obstetricians — their newborns scream...
Mother is addicted to prescription drugs, and so is her miserable, crying, inconsolable infant.
Skyrocketing numbers of babies have been born since about 2008 at Sarasota Memorial Hospital dependent on opioid drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and heroin...
Source and full story here:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130618/article/130619620
>>>
June 5, 2013
Drug-addicted babies up at some W.Va. hospitals
Associated Press
CHARLESTON — Some hospitals in West Virginia are seeing an increase in the number of babies born with drug addictions...
Source and full story here:
http://www.register-herald.com/todaysfrontpage/x697473273/Drug-addicted-babies-up-at-some-W-Va-hospitals
HCN article/blog post time 4:50pm EST
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