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The US is failing infants exposed to drugs and alcohol
Joseph Adonis of New York, age 14 months, died from acute heroin, cocaine and fentanyl poisoning. A medically fragile toddler in Arizona died after being left unattended his crib by parents with a long history of substance abuse. A Missouri four-year old died from malnutrition and chronic abuse by a caregiver prone to “unpredictable behavior” due to drug abuse. These cases are not isolated tragedies. More than a decade into the opioid epidemic, trends in pediatric poisonings, Narcan administrations to infants and child fatalities continue to signal a crisis for children. The high human and economic costs of mass incarceration during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s a

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