In Huntington, West Virginia, one nurse,Sara Murray, is responsible for two dozen babies in the neonatal therapeutic unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital. These babies shake and vomit. These symptoms can last for hours, days or months. These babies are the youngest victims of a raging epidemic. They are know as heroin babies, born addicted. One in ten babies born at the hospital has withdrawals from some type of drug. They are addicted to heroin, opiates, cocaine, alcohol or a combination of many. Nearly everyone in Huntington is a victim of this epidemic.
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What do you think the U.S. government could do to help reduce this epidemic?
How do you think we could end this epidemic and save babies from being born addicted?
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Good job Alex! You only commented on two different days instead of three.
I really don't think there is anything anyone can do to reduce this epidemic. People will always find a way around the law. It would be nice to live in a perfect world where everyone had common sense, but we don't.
This is a very unfortunate problem that we have to deal with. It just goes to show you how irresponsible some parents are and how the consequences can effect others. I think a way the government could help this is by cracking down on drug addicts, especially monitor pregnant women so that they can be in a healthy state both for the sake of her and the baby.
The way the government could improve on this is by taking down the source of it more border control and enforce it more in america the just look the other way on this issue.We could make commercials on how these drugs can effect their baby and why it wrong to do this to a child that you are caring.
The government can't help stop it. People will always go against the law. I also don't really think that we can help it either. There are always going to be people who don't listen or follow laws or rules. If anything we can not do the drugs at all but especially when pregnant. Its really a bad thing that these babies are being born addicted and it needs to stop but we don't really have any control.
Sadly the Government won't be able to do much about this problem. I have no clue what they could do because they will still find a way to get there fix if they are that addicted at birth.
Since you don't believe that the government won't be able to do anything. Do you think that doctors and medicine will get better and we will find a better way to help these babies that are being born addicted at birth?
The Governent can't do much more than it already is with the drugs. I suppose they could drug test the mothers bi-weekly during pregnancy, and if they aren't clean they won't be admitted to give birth to the baby in that hospital.
The children should also be taken away immediately and put into child protective services.
we can deny mothers entrance to hospitals if they aren't clean
Testing the mothers weekly is a good idea, but not allowing them to get birth in that hospital wont do much. The baby will still be born addicted to the drugs. I think that they should test the mothers weekly if any signs of drugs use and if the mother is on drugs that could harm the baby then they should have to be admitted into the hospital and be watched until the baby is born.
1. I don't think the U.S Government can really do anything. Once these people get addicted they are not going give up this addiction for a baby. Maybe the government could take the kid away for them and get the help the baby needs.
2. I think we should have more awareness for this cause and help end this problem.
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