Tennessee Is Seeing A Rise In The Number Of Babies Born Drug Dependent And Most Of Those Babies Are In Rural Areas. According To A New Study With Researchers From Vanderbilt University, An Increasing Number Of Newborns Being Born With Drug Withdrawal Symptoms From Opioids Are In Rural Areas Compared To Births In Urban Areas. A Drug Dependent Baby Will Experience Withdrawals Shortly After Birth; It’s Called Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).Tennessee Has One Of The Highest Rates Of NAS In The US.