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Article Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local NewsDr. Mary Newport sees the symptoms more and more in the babies she treats: oddly stiff limbs, severe tremors, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia, crying that never stops.
The common denominator: Their mothers were taking prescription drugs, mostly painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin, and antianxiety drugs like Xanax during pregnancy.
And that's IF the little tykes get to be born as MANY prescribed anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications carry warnings for birth defects and/or miscarriages.
So much so that several companies have been fined recently.
The results of the Health Care Reform bill and its inclusive "Mother's Act" component HEAVILY lobbied by the APA for inclusion in this bill for its "screenings" to pregnant mothers.
WTG- APA, birthing the next generation of CUSTOMERS. Whether they like it or not.
#1 - Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:30 PM EDTWhen will people start to understand that we need so many prescription drugs because of the food we are forced to eat? Our water ain't so hot either. But we keep bowing to the pharmaceutical and processed food gods. Maybe when it becomes obvious that not only is this the first generation of people that don't live better than their parents also becomes the first generation to live a shorter life?
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