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Addicted At Birth: The Babies Hooked On Heroin
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September 7, 2015
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11:46Now PlayingThe number of babies born addicted to drugs in the United States has quadrupled in the last decade, new figures reveal.
Every half an hour a baby is born craving the drug its mother was addicted to, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The rise is being blamed on a growing epidemic of painkiller and heroin use currently gripping America.
In this special result, Sky's Nick Martin gains access to a clinic specialising in treating babies born addicted to narcotics.
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