{"id":1807,"date":"2018-07-31T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/three-new-born-babies-a-day-are-treated-for-drug-addiction-in-shocking-nhs-figures\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:22:27","slug":"three-new-born-babies-a-day-are-treated-for-drug-addiction-in-shocking-nhs-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/three-new-born-babies-a-day-are-treated-for-drug-addiction-in-shocking-nhs-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new born babies A DAY are treated for drug addiction in shocking NHS figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: NAS – neonatal abstinence syndrome – affects babies whose mothers have abused drugs during pregnancy, leaving their babies to go cold turkey after birth. 22:26, 28 JUL 2018<\/p>\n

Three babies a day are having treatment for drug addiction \u00adafter being born hooked on \u00adheroin or cocaine.<\/p>\n

Shock figures from NHS Digital show hospitals dealt with 5,000 cases of \u00adaddicted tots over the last four years.<\/p>\n

NAS \u2013 neonatal abstinence syndrome \u2013 affects babies whose mums have abused drugs during pregnancy.<\/p>\n

When the umbilical cord is cut, the supply of drugs suddenly stops, so the addicted infant goes cold turkey.<\/p>\n

Typical symptoms include high-pitched or incessant crying, tremors, vomiting and sweating.<\/p>\n

But babies can also suffer dehydration, diarrhoea, fevers and even seizures.<\/p>\n

Some may need medication to treat severe withdrawal symptoms, usually from the same family of drugs as the substance that the baby is \u00adaddicted to.<\/p>\n

Once the signs of withdrawal are controlled, the dosage is gradually decreased to help wean the baby off the drug.<\/p>\n

Figures from the NHS show the problem is countrywide.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet none of the women we support wanted to end up in this position. Most are victims of childhood sexual trauma and domestic violence.<\/p>\n

“The shame and guilt they feel is huge. But all they need is help and support to break the cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cA mum might come to us on baby four or five. Her previous children have all been taken into care.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy getting her through treatment, addressing her underlying issues and enabling her to keep her child, we break that cycle of repeat removal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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EXCLUSIVE: NAS – neonatal abstinence syndrome – affects babies whose mothers have abused drugs during pregnancy, leaving their babies to go cold turkey after birth. 22:26, 28 JUL 2018 Three babies a day are having treatment for drug addiction \u00adafter being born hooked on \u00adheroin or cocaine. Shock figures from NHS Digital show hospitals dealt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isabella-list-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}