In a Drug-Loving Culture, We Welcome our Babies with Their First 'High'
Warning: This is most definitely an opinion piece! Surprisingly, FOUR out of FIVE babies in the U.S. are born on drugs . WHAT!?!?! 80% of our tiny fragile human babies are born on drugs!?!? Yep! Even though we live in a country that spends countless trillions of dollars on the "drug-war"... if the government says it's illegal, we'll judge you for using it and lock you up in prison, but if a pharmaceutical company manufactured that dangerous drug, well, then we'll stand in line to take it and even give it to our babies. ...hypocrites much??? So where are these babies getting their first high? From their doctors and mothers, of course! Opiods, such as Fentanyl and Meperidine (Demerol), are pretty hard-core drugs which are frequently used in the management of labor pain. In fact, the Listening to Mothers Survey III (2013) reported that over 67% of mothers received an epidural and another 16% received another opiod medication (often as an injection), such as Demerol...