Think of the time in 1914, decades before the term “neonatal abstinence syndrome” was coined (to describe the withdrawal of a baby born drug-dependent), when a Washington official wrote that it was “almost unbelievable that anyone for the sake of a few dollars would concoct for infant use a pernicious mixture containing…morphine, codeine, opium, cannabis indica, and heroin, which are widely advertised and which are accompanied by the assertion that they ‘contain nothing injurious to the youngest babe.’”
