Health Care Providers Discuss Addicted Newborns

Health officials, health care workers and drug control professionals are talking about the problems surrounding Kentucky babies who are born addicted to drugs.
 
The Courier-Journal reports that hospitalizations for addicted newborns increased from 29 in 2000 to 730 in 2011, a 2,400 percent rise.
 
At a meeting last week in Frankfort, about 75 experts on the subject said there are encouraging signs despite the numbers.
 
Those signs include a reduction in the amount of controlled substances dispensed and the promise of getting more pregnant women into substance abuse treatment under federal health reform.