Drug Addicted Babies Increasing in Boston
Drug addicted babies increasing in Boston
1300 babies were born in Massachusetts in 2012 with drugs in their system, usually resulting in treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the hospital. . Personal conversations with representatives from Kaiser back in the 1990's provided …
Read more on Examiner.com
Our opinion: An opiate emergency
The governor pledged $ 20 million for increased treatment and recovery services. Prison time is no solution unless that time includes programs to enable addicts to get … The Sunday Boston Globe, in a harrowing story on a baby prosecutors believe died …
Read more on Berkshire Eagle
Cases of newborns with addictions soaring
Mya's great uncle Jeffrey Pinkham still wonders why state social workers assigned to protect her left the newborn in what was described by prosecutors as a dirty, cluttered apartment with parents who struggled with addiction. “They knew how addictive …
Read more on Boston Globe