The opioid drug epidemic has created a lot more drug-dependent newborns and hospitals often have to foot the bill for their treatment, the Boston Herald has reported. The cost of treating these ...

A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery ...

Washington Democrats and Governor Bob Ferguson claim to champion the vulnerable, yet they have once again revealed their disturbing priorities. Ferguson, in a move of pure political pandering, has ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine a more difficult start to life than the early days of Callum Hesketh. He spent his first four months in intensive care after suffering a stroke and a cardiac arrest as hospital ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal ...

The number of babies in Scotland to have started out life addicted to alcohol and drugs continues to raise concern.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Four children have died under the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department’s watch since April. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said she’s had enough and said the ...

The research suggests that more than 200 babies born each year are born with an addiction to drugs and have to receive treatment for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) as infants.

“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 ...

Eight months pregnant and in pain, Stephanie Rosell went to the Holy Family hospital emergency room after an infection began spreading up her legs. Unemployed and homeless, estranged from her family, ...