Hooked on Mom's Painkillers at Birth - ABC News: As drug abuse in this country has shifted from street drugs toward the medicine cabinet, more children enter the world dependent on their mothers' prescription painkillers, like OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet. Baby nurses who once monitored rows of cribs with cooing newborns today are on alert for irritable newborns who may cry excessively, or develop tremors, diarrhea, sweating and vomiting in their first hours to days of life -- all signs of withdrawal from drugs they absorbed from their mother's bodies.
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