For 11 days, Caleb could only watch as his newborn son cried and clenched his little body in a dark, quiet area of a hospital neonatal intensive care unit. The baby had been born to a mom on drugs. Now out in the world, he was going through withdrawal.
In 2005, the boy would have been a rarity in Maine, one of just 165 babies affected by drugs. But in 2011, he was one of 667 newborns affected by drugs — four times more than six years earlier.
As opiate addiction has ballooned in Maine, so has the number of babies paying the price.
Read more about this growing problem in the Sun Journal this Sunday.
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