Hands of Hope Mentors First-Time Mothers in Addiction Recovery
Q&A with Brittany Hong, mentor According to the Tennessee Department of Health, of the thousand babies born drug dependent in Tennessee...
How a Tennessee OB-GYN Turned into An Addiction Specialist for Pregnant Women
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Dr. Jennifer Maddron was drawn to obstetrics in her third year of medical school after she witnessed her first...
Tennessee Parents Lose Kids as Opioid Crisis Rages On
Knoxville County Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin presides over more terminations of parental rights cases than any other judge in...
MDC Receives Phase Two Of Trinity Foundation Grant
As our nation continues to seek solutions to the prescription drug abuse epidemic, Tennessee is disproportionately shouldering the...
Number of Babies Born Dependent on Drugs Growing, ETSU Researching to Find Answers
TRI-CITIES, TN (WJHL)- Right now our region has one of the biggest populations of babies born dependent on drugs. Out of the entire...
Junior League Donates $20,000 to ETSU for Creation of NAS Database
Left in the wake of Tennessee’s opioid epidemic are hundreds of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS. To be exact, 779...
Volunteers Cuddle Babies with NAS
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Mothers, others Share Stories for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Month
From the waist up, Meghan Denney was cool and collected, telling the story of how, with help, she saved her own life. Behind the lectern...
Mothers, Others Share Stories for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Month
From the waist up, Meghan Denney was cool and collected, telling the story of how, with help, she saved her own life. Behind the lectern...
Tone of Tennessee Discussion of Pregnant Drug-Using Women Changes Dramatically
Could Tennessee move, within a period of just a couple of years, from a state roundly criticized for a punitive approach to pregnant...