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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Babies lie on the floor, coaxed into play by the hovering staff. New mothers rock their babies in chairs that frame the center of a room ringed with cribs. There are a dozen babies at Serenity Place ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opioids may affect how cute people think babies are, a new small study finds. In the study, people with an opioid dependence who viewed images of cute babies didn't show any activity in the part of ...

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