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pregnant and addicted

  • Florida’s opioid epidemic triggered a public health emergency. In Volusia and Flagler Counties the number of newborn babies detoxing from opioids has doubled in the last five years and at any one time there are one to three cases where newborns are suffering symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal.