Drug-Addicted Newborns: Doctors, Not Moms, Are during Fault

<p>COMMENTARY | About 3 years ago, we met a lady during a get-together during a friend’s house. She was 5 months pregnant, and her unborn baby was a concentration of most conversation. The trusting mom mentioned in flitting that she’d been carrying terrible headaches “like always” and was holding Lortab, an addictive pain reliever, twice per day, as she had been doing for years. When we asked if she was endangered about a outcome a drugs competence have on her baby, she glared during me and said, “My alloy prescribed it. we don’t have to live in pain.” A month later, we found out by a grapevine that a baby had been stillborn, prematurely, with manifest birth defects. we suppose that this pain was distant worse for a mom than a headaches she would have been forced to tolerate.
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This isn’t an odd situation, generally in my area. According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/28/health/drug-babies/index.html">CNN</a>, a Tennessee Department of Heal...