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 ...

The numbers tell a story no one wants to hear: opioid use during pregnancy has more than doubled in California over the past ...

Infants exposed to opioids and psychotropic drugs during pregnancy have a 30% to 60% higher risk of experiencing neonatal withdrawal, a study has found. That risk doubles when multiple psychotropic ...

While pregnant with her second child, Cailyn Morreale was assured by her care team that she did not need to discontinue buprenorphine and that her baby would be assessed and monitored using the Eat, ...

A new study into the race and socio-demographics of newborns with symptoms of opioid withdrawal shows that it is disproportionately higher among white newborns whose mothers are Medicaid enrollees and ...

A baby is born in withdrawal every 18 minutes in the US, and most end up in foster care. At centers like Maddie’s Place, mothers stay with their infants – and leave together, in recovery ...

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 ...