The newborn baby seemed normal. But after two days it began to vomit, cried & tossed in its crib, was seized by convulsions and fits of holding its breath. These all suggested symptoms of a drug addict suddenly deprived of his drug.
The baby was indeed a drug addict, born to a drug-addicted mother. After birth it was suffering the usual symptoms of an addict deprived of morphine.
This horrifying case, proving that drug-addicted mothers produce drug-addicted babies, was reported last week by Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein of Chicago in the American Medical Association Journal. Said the doctor: "Separation from the maternal circulation...
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