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Hundreds of thousands of US infants every year pay the consequences of prenatal exposure to drugs, a growing crisis particularly in rural America

  • Written by Amna Umer, Associate Professor of Pediatric Epidemiology, West Virginia University
imageSubstance use during pregnancy can lead to a broad array of harmful effects.Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Nearly 1 in 12 newborns in the United States in 2020 – or about 300,000 infants – were exposed to alcohol, opioids, marijuana or cocaine before they were born. Exposure to these substances puts these newborns at a...

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