PEDIATRICS Vol. 84 No. 4 October 1989, pp. A54
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Since 1985, the rate of admissions to our neonatal intensive care unit has risen from 14 percent of live births to 22 percent—more than three times the national average. A lot of this is due to crack. . . .The system is so overloaded that we can't handle the babies we are getting anymore.