heroin babies

Babies who have received a regular morphine dosage via the placenta before birth and who show withdrawal signs after birth. These include diarrhoea, vomiting, sweating, sneezing, shakiness, hyperactivity, breathing difficulties and convulsions and persist for 1–3 weeks.

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They are the heroin babies - tots who become hooked on the drug in the womb, through their addict mums.

I can tell the screams of an addicted baby; Blameless for their condition, they are the tiniest victims of heroin. Simon Houston meets carers for tots born hooked on drugs

Heroin babies have to be weaned off the drug they have nurtured on.

Drugs Plague Killing Ireland: TRAGEDY OF GIRLS HOOKED ON HEROIN

It also says a major support programme for tragic heroin babies is needed straight away.

200 suspected drug dealers are trapped in D-Day raid by Gardai; MASSIVE STING OPERATION IN FIVE COUNTIES

Heroin babies born to addicts have to be weaned off the drug they have been fed on in their junkie mum's body.