What Are the Long Term Effects of Being a Heroin Baby?

Question by Lady K: What are the long term effects of being a heroin baby?
I know someone who was born addicted to heroin. They were born early but not underweight. They stayed in the hospital receiving methadone treatments. Now that they are an adult, what are there any symptoms that could still be effecting him…25 years later?

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Answer by grand lake bum
they like Jimi Hendricks and Jim Morrison

Answer by emotionalhavoc
depression, OCD, ADD, forgettfulness, similar things caused by seratonin imbalances.

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