The opioid drug epidemic has created a lot more drug-dependent newborns and hospitals often have to foot the bill for their treatment, the Boston Herald has reported. The cost of treating these ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine a more difficult start to life than the early days of Callum Hesketh. He spent his first four months in intensive care after suffering a stroke and a cardiac arrest as hospital ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Four children have died under the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department’s watch since April. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said she’s had enough and said the ...

“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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal ...

NASHVILLE — A task force of state health officials is trying to reverse an alarming rise in the number of babies born addicted to drugs in Tennessee.

Again and again the same scene plays across our state: A child dies in the custody of a guardian. The investigation reveals the child was living in an unsafe home with a drug-addicted caregiver. The ...