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well, the standard of care for a woman with opioid aga dependen dependency, meaning prescription bills and/or heroin is to go on medication-assisted treatment. meaning an opioid replacement drug, methadone or something to stabilize the woman during pregnancy shown not to hurt the fetus, which ends the compulsion for drugs, which can be so damaging during a pregnancy and can lead to all kinds of other health problems, early delivery, miscarriage, underweight babies. women who stay on the medication assisted treatment tend to have normal babies, babies born in the normal birthrates. the downside is that the babies could have a syndrome, meaning they are born with an opioid dependency and have to have medication-assisted treatment to withdraw from that. that tends to be a pretty seamless process. i mean, i witnessed it in more than one child. the results of any of this in ....