HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-- Numbers from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services indicate the number of drug-addicted babies born in West Virginia is on the rise. Lily's Place, a group in ...
A Tennessee law that’s the first of its kind aims to protect unborn children by prosecuting women for assault, who illegally use narcotics during pregnancy and give birth to a baby born drug-dependent ...
DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WPVI) -- The ABC7 I-Team looked into the most heartbreaking development of the opioid epidemic: tiny lives that begin drug dependent. They can't "just say no" because they are ...
NASHVILLE — A task force of state health officials is trying to reverse an alarming rise in the number of babies born addicted to drugs in Tennessee.
Babies are being born addicted to opioids in Indiana at alarming rates. Help isn't always available.
The Valparaiso couple arrived at the hospital, the woman already in labor. A staff member wheeled her to the delivery unit, but it was too late. She gave birth in the wheelchair.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) | The number of babies born addicted to heroin and other opiates is growing at an alarming rate in intensive care units across Wisconsin. Over 500 addicted infants are born ...
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Pregnant women who use illegal drugs while expecting may be prosecuted if they harm their babies or make them addicted, if a proposed law passes in Tennessee. WZTV reported that House Bill 1168 was ...
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Perspective: Do babies belong with drug-addicted mothers? New Mexico has a change of heart
“The 4-month old was the last straw.” That’s what Maralyn Beck, executive director of the Child First New Mexico Network, told me, explaining why the state has finally announced a radical change in ...
From the moment they are born, the babies scream inconsolably, said Dr. Joy Anderson, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Mountain States Medical Group. “When you deliver a baby on Subutex [a drug ...
City lawmakers are proposing a major overhaul of the District's child protection law that would for the first time require D.C. social workers to open abuse and neglect investigations whenever babies ...
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