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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In August, just six months after it opened in a discreet building on Murray Place in Lynchburg, the Lynchburg Treatment Center saw its first pregnant patient. The first of its kind in the area, the ...

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 ...

News On 6 contacted the woman who adopted Miller's first three babies and wanted to know how they are doing now. Becky Hinkle and her husband couldn't have children of their own. They opened their ...

That was how Teresa Bell said she felt the first time she encountered a drug-addicted newborn. “To see a baby who had no control, who had nothing to do with this and the fact that somebody else did ...

Drug use is widely viewed as base and reprehensible, but drug use by pregnant women? It’s in a criminal category all its own. Despite the objections of reproductive and civil rights advocates, ...

Thousands of babies have been born hooked on drugs in England over the past decade, new data has revealed. More than 1,000 newborns have received treatment in England’s hospitals each year since 2014 ...

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 ...