And it has to be: Roughly half of the neonatal unit's 49 infants are being treated for drug dependence.
In 2008, East Tennessee Children's Hospital treated 33 infants at the hospital for drug dependence, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome.
But AEG Live's lawyer Marvin Putnam said Jackson's closely guarded private life left the promoters in the dark about his drug dependence.
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Groups such as the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence say that amphetamine use is actually falling, despite its association with the club scene.
The most dangerous are opiates (ie, heroin and methadone), which kill about 1.5% of their users each year, according to London's Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence.
Drug abuse in the state is ranked among the nation's highest, according to some estimates, a fact underscored by the number of children born with signs of drug dependence.
The researchers found that the more relatives a person had with major depression, anxiety disorder, or alcohol or drug dependence, the more likely he or she was to have that condition too.
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"Over the whole period of the scope of the review, the Probation Service had considerable involvement with Child B's mother and sister, who both had chronic involvement in criminal activity and drug dependence, " it said.
She also claims that since she began using the drug her dependence on the NHS has lessened.
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It turns out that the more family members you have who have been found to have major depression, anxiety disorders, or drug or alcohol dependence, the greater the chances that you will too, according to Terrie E.
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Alkermes is starting late-stage clinical trials of Vivitrex, an injectable form of naltroxene--an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of opiate and alcohol dependence, and it has several other drugs in development.
On April 13, Cephalon won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Vivitrol drug, a once-monthly injection for alcohol dependence co-developed with Alkermes.
America's dependence on such imports stems from a shortage of sodium thiopental, part of the three-drug cocktail used in most executions.
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