The Day Ahead
President Donald J. Trump
and the First Lady will tour Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
The smallest victims of the Crisis Next Door
The opioids crisis touches Americans from all walks of life, responsible for more
deaths than either car accidents or gun violence last year. Addiction tears up
families everywhere from inner cities along the coasts to rural communities in
the heartland.
Some of its victims are the smallest, most vulnerable among us. From 2000 to 2012,
America saw a five-fold increase in the share of babies born with
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)—equivalent to one baby suffering from opiate
withdrawal born every 25 minutes, according to the National Institute on Drug
Abuse.
Last year, 198 babies were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Nationwide
Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for NAS. Today, President Trump and
First Lady Melania Trump will tour that facility, discussing the
Administration’s three-part plan to halt the opioid crisis.
The First Lady’s “Be Best”
initiative also takes aim at NAS, educating
parents on the importance of healthy pregnancies. Last year, the First Lady
visited Lily’s Place in West Virginia, where addiction recovery treatment is
available to entire families.
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