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, ...

EMPOWERED, a program of Roseman University College of Medicine dedicated to supporting pregnant and postpartum individuals ...

SALT LAKE CITY — To determine who helped Kelsie Buchanan get clean and sober, you have to start with her 3-year-old son, Oliver. In the fall of 2020, upon discovering she was pregnant with her son, ...

REDDING — Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. This story also ran ...

Protections for pregnant and addicted women, championed by a Pioneer Valley politician, were included in a sweeping law signed by the governor on Monday. Passed by the Legislature on Dec. 19, the “Act ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

As featured in The Herald at the time, Stephanie Boyle left the rehab center in 2023. In February she’ll return, but not as a ...

I bought my first and only pregnancy test when I was 26. At the time, I had been doing a lot of meth. I was fortunate if I remembered to eat one meal a day. Refilling my birth-control prescription had ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. Her baby, Kyle, who had been ...