Sadly, it's not for adults only. From 2000 to 2012, there was a five-fold increase in the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome — equivalent to one baby suffering from narcotic withdrawal born every 25 minutes. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics looked at over 13,000 U.S. pediatric discharge records for patients 1-19 years of age who were hospitalized from 1997 to 2012 for opioid poisonings. Hospitalization rates were highest in older adolescents 15-19 years of age, whose hospitalizations increased 176 percent from the prior year, but the largest percentage increase was among children 1-4 years of age, whose hospitalizations due to accidental ingestions increased 205 percent.