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This Unsettling Line of Baby Products Was Designed for Newborns Facing Opioid Withdrawal

The inventions aren't real, but the problem certainly is

opioid-baby-products-hed-page-2019 — From a feeding spoon that doubles as a morphine injector to a bottle fitted with respirator, these fake products highlight an opioid-induced health crisis. Urgent Love Initiative

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Many of us have seen the devastating toll of opioid addiction and withdrawal on adults, who are statistically likely to relapse eight times before escaping the drug’s hold. But picturing such an ordeal being faced by a newborn is an image so heartbreaking, we can hardly process it.

To help visualize this unimaginably heartbreaking issue, agency Grey New York and the Roanoke-based Urgent Love Initiative have created a fictional line of baby products called Opi’s, tailored to the needs of newborns struggling with opioid withdrawal inherited from addicted mothers.

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