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 ...

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — The umbilical cord carries oxygen and other nutrients to an unborn baby during pregnancy. If the mother is drug-dependent, the cord acts just like a syringe, injecting the illegal ...

(The Center Square) – After 35 years, the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent – the only specialized medical facility in western Washington caring for drug-exposed babies – stopped accepting new ...

“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 ...

Santa Fe, N.M.-based Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is improving care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome through a project that cuts hospitalization time and required ...

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 ...

The drug helped Ms. Massarone, who had also battled obesity, lose 17 pounds. Critically, it also allowed her to overcome drug ...