re: Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawals

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laymen's

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It's highly addictive

We should enter into a treaty with a bunch of other countries. We can call it the Paris Opiate Treaty. The US can pay a Trillion per year, everyone else pays nothing. In a few decades, we can reduce opiate births to one in every 23.75 minutes.

I am not going to believe it just because you posted it, but it isn't surprising so many babies are being born suffering from opioid withdrawals. Opioid addiction is an epidemic and a woman, who is an addict, probably has more unprotected sex than the average woman so there is probably more unplanned pregnancies going on and a woman, who is an addict, doesn't just stop using for 9 months while she is pregnant.

It's sad. Look at all the crack babies that were born when crack was an epidemic.

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When I was in treatment around a year ago, heroin was the main drug of choice for about 100ish people that came and went throughout the program. I can only recall one person that didn't have his addiction begin with painkillers

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Yeah, I went into treatment for booze around a year and a half ago. I figured most of the other patients would also be alkies but it was probably 70% heroin.

Being in rehab for booze alone makes you in rare company there.