Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A program for opioid dependent newborns is one of many organizations receiving money from SC's share of national opioid ...

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 ...

A major new study shows that individualized treatment for babies born with opioid withdrawal can speed recovery and reduce ...

In the new NICU, babies in bassinets cried in dark rooms as medical staff tried to console them, with little success. Each day, a new baby would join the echoing shrills: the distinct sound of ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) – Statistics show a steep increase in the number of babies born addicted to opioids at Reid Health hospital in Richmond. Hospital representatives say 23 babies were born with an ...

An increasing number of babies are born in the Greater Cincinnati region with drug withdrawal symptoms, which Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Dr. Scott Wexelblatt hopes is "at a peak." ...

But there is one distinguishing characteristic: the patient is a newborn baby, from a mother addicted to opioids. Mere hours from the womb – and withdrawing from opioids. The opioid crisis is well ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: “Fentanyl in America: A Way Out” on “The Whole Story presented by Anderson Cooper” at 8 p.m. ET/PT Sunday. “I was asked to give an update of myself for this documentary, and I wanted to ...