Amani and three other mothers spoke on a panel at a recent event about their experiences struggling with substance use while pregnant or postpartum. Photos: — JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF Heath News/TNS
WHEN Andria Peterson began working as a clinical pharmacist in the paediatric and neonatal intensive care units at St Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada in 2009, she witnessed the devastating effects the opioid crisis had on the hospital’s youngest patients.
She recalled vividly one baby who stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for 90 days with neonatal abstinence syndrome, a form of withdrawal, because his mother had used substances while pregnant.
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