Prescription Drugs Lead to Growing Problem of Infant Addiction

Published January 30, 2014

Prescription drugs lead to growing problem of infant addiction
“That boils down to every hour a baby born in the United States is born with the signs and symptoms of opiate withdrawal, or roughly 13,539 babies per year,” said Jonathan Phillips, University Health Conway's assistant director of nursing. Neonatal …
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Jo Martin: Sugar can be like an addiction
Brain scans carried out by Nicole Avena, a neuroscientist working on the theory that sugar is clinically addictive, demonstrated that the reward centres of the brain "light up" with sugar in a similar way to the effect elicited by hard drugs. Other …
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