The consequences of drug addiction can carry a heavy toll for the tiniest people: newborn babies who suffer from withdrawal. In the neonatal intensive care unit, health professionals see firsthand a product of alarming increases in prescription opioid abuse — community health advocates cite a 666 percent increase in the dispensing of oxycodone from 2009 to 2011 in Hall County. “We’ve definitely felt that in the neonatal world,” said Janessa Canals-Alonso, nurse manager at Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s NICU. “Where before we were impacted more by premature deliveries, or just a very sick infant, all of sudden we’re constantly having babies that are in withdrawal in our units.”