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Amid the heroin crisis in the 1990s, Professor Ju Lee Oei was part of a team that established a world-first outpatient clinic in Sydney prescribing methadone to newborns exposed to opioids in the womb.

“In the past, if a baby was withdrawing and no one recognised it, they’d likely be sent home and die,” Oei, now a senior neonatologist at The Royal Hospital for Women…

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