Sentence examples for born dependent from inspiring English sources

They were both humbly born, dependent on men, and, one suspects, frustrated artists.

Whereas in 2004, seven babies in 1,000 were born dependent on narcotics, by 2013 the figure had leapt to 27 in every 1000 by 2013.

The study found that rural infants and their mothers were more likely to be poorer and to rely on public insurance like Medicaid, but it did not address other factors behind the increase in babies born dependent on opioids.

Like the cocaine-exposed babies of the 1980s, those born dependent on prescription opiates -- narcotics that contain opium or its derivatives -- are entering a world in which little is known about the long-term effects on their development.

"When I went to University Hospital's neonatal [intensive care unit], I saw about half the babies there were born dependent on drugs - which was just shocking to me.

As the abuse of opioids, including prescription painkillers and heroin, has risen in Tennessee, the number of babies born dependent on drugs has skyrocketed, increasing fifteenfold during the last 10 years.

In Scioto county, an epicenter of the opioid epidemic, one in ten babies was born opioid dependent in 2009.

We are born completely dependent on others to care for us and with brains that are far from having fully developed.

Some authorities say such children are born physiologically dependent on their parents' drug of choice; others argue the children's predisposition to addiction may be genetic or purely environmental.

Children ever born, the dependent variable, is treated as an interval scale in both bivariate and multivariate analyses.

— a barbarian4 exile had possessed himself of the cities of Italy and had entrusted the government of Rome to some low-born dependent.