When Kiran Dwarakanath worked as a doctor in New York, hospitals had entire neonatology units devoted specifically to helping babies born addicted to drugs going through withdrawals. Then he came to ...

WILLISTON, N.D. – As drug use continues to rise in Williams County and the surrounding area, illicit substances are increasingly turning up in the most vulnerable sector of the population. More babies ...

A Tennessee law that’s the first of its kind aims to protect unborn children by prosecuting women for assault, who illegally use narcotics during pregnancy and give birth to a baby born drug-dependent ...

A Florida Gulf Coast University professor studied a method for weaning babies off opioids now recommended by the National Institutes of Health and a local foster mom has detoxed more than one addicted ...

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 ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) -- The opiate problem in the Miami Valley is having an effect on newborn babies. Now, a local hospital has implemented a program to help support those babies going through ...

DETROIT — An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resulting addiction has now shown up in the most vulnerable patients — America's newborns, according to a report released Monday.