Are Oxycontin Babies This Decade’s Crack Babies? – TIME Healthland

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Are Oxycontin Babies This Decade’s Crack Babies? – TIME Healthland

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In the late 1980s and early '90s, it was almost impossible to avoid hearing about the plight of "crack babies" --" infants born to mothers who had used crack cocaine during pregnancy.

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