Last year, more than 900 babies in Maine were exposed to addictive substances before they were born. We’ll learn how these infants and their mothers are affected and treated, and what lasting effects this growing phenomenon has on society.
Guests
Courtney Allen, a mother of two boys who has been drug-free for three years, she helps others in recovery for addiction and is a student at University of Maine
Barbara Walsh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and freelance writer, she wrote a recent series for Pine Tree Watch about mothers and babies affected by opioid addiction. She is also the author of "August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey Into the Storm," and "Sammy in the Sky," a children's book illustrated by Jamie Wyeth.
Dr. Alan Picarillo, neonatologist with Maine Medical Center
Dr. Julia McDonald (by phone), family medicine physician at Family Medicine Institute in Augusta
Resources
- Born to Drugs: Maine’s most innocent victims
- Piercing cries and a state of crisis
- Desperate to change
- Meant to love and care for special babies
- From depths of addiction to symbol of hope
- Babies Born Dependent On Opioids Need Touch, Not Tech
- Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not
- Number of drug-affected babies born in Maine declines for the first time in over a decade
- Dramatic Increases in Maternal Opioid Use and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- Mills Has Promised To Create A Drug Czar. Here’s How That Could Help Ease The Opioid Crisis In Maine
- Mothers and Babies See Better Outcomes with New Life – A Way Forward from Addiction