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Do you know what's worse than an infant being hooked up to a morphine drip?

A spontaneously aborted fetus because the stress of withdrawal during pregnancy was too much for the mother's body.

If an addict becomes pregnant and seeks treatment (which during pregnancy would likely consist of continued dosage of an opioid in the form of methadone) then there is the risk that she will give birth to an opioid dependent infant (or not - it's only something on the order of 1/3rd of infants born to mothers who use opioids who suffer from NAS).

But yes...treat the parent as subhuman. Rip the infant away from its mother. To punish the mother because she's bad.

Nevermind the fact that there has been a strong link demonstrated by neonatal bonding between mother and infant and lower rates of NAS as well as overall better outcomes for the child.