INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING IN THAT AREA. ONCE WE GET AN UPDATE, WE WILL SHARE THAT WITH YOU. OUR TARGET 7 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION, BROKEN PROMISES SHOWED YOU HOW BABIES BORN ADDICTED TO DRUGS WERE BEING ...

The cries of an opiate addicted baby rarely stop. "Infants that are exposed will have some difficulty bonding with their parent," says Dr. Lisa Schrott, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology ...

Morrisey vows to protect Hope Scholarship as budget fight focuses on $300M funding Gov. Patrick Morrisey says he is committed to protecting the Hope Scholarship as lawmakers debate sharply different ...

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.

Authorities say a man has died in a crash in Lincoln County while fleeing with his drug-addicted infant daughter. The 3-week-old baby and an 18-year-old passenger in the man’s vehicle were not ...

BOGALUSA — At her first pregnancy appointment, Rachel Hernandez showed up in handcuffs, flanked by two sheriff’s deputies. She had come from a jail cell. Addicted to heroin, facing drug charges and a ...

The number of U.S. infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome — a term encapsulating the host of health problems newborns experience when their mothers use opioids during pregnancy — increased ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico has expressed regret over signing the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) in 2019, a law that has been blamed for numerous infant deaths in the ...