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A sharp rise in heroin addiction, coupled with the risks of newborns developing withdrawal symptoms after they are sent home, has led a group of Cincinnati hospitals to try what they say is the first program of its kind in the United States: testing all mothers, or their infants, for opiates regardless of background, not just those who seem high-risk.
海洛因成癮率大幅上升，加之回家后嬰兒可能遭受母親戒毒所帶來的痛苦，辛辛那提的一批醫院開始在美國嘗試一個全新的項目：不論背景，不論是否具有高風險性，對所有母親或者她們的嬰兒進行毒品測試。
The aim, they say, is to catch as early as possible any infants at risk of suffering from withdrawal because of their mothers' drug abuse. Known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, infants can experience extreme irritability, poor feeding and diarrhea, all of which can show 48 to 96 hours after birth.
醫院稱這樣做是為了盡早發現任何可能因為母親出現戒毒癥狀而遭受痛苦的嬰兒。新生兒脫癮綜合征會導致嬰幼兒極度敏感、食欲不佳以及腹瀉，所有這些癥狀都會在出生后48小時到96小時出現。
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