Article: Rise in drug addict babies.

A SHOCKING 126 drug-addicted mums gave birth in South Yorkshire in a year, The Star can reveal.

The data includes new mums dependent on alcohol, heroin, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, solvents and tobacco.

Latest figures available for South Yorkshire alone show 126 drug-dependent mothers had babies in the county in 2005/06 - up from 114 in 2004/05, 78 in 2003/04 and 60 in 2002/03.

Since 2006, South Yorkshire has been included within the larger Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority, where 163 Yorkshire babies were born hooked on drugs last year.

The babies were all diagnosed with drug withdrawal symptoms shortly after their birth.

The figures ...

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