Rise in drug-addicted babies prompts judge’s controversial solution

(CBS NEWS) – America’s opioid crisis is expanding to a new class of victims—unborn children.
Infants are being born with symptoms of withdrawal, also known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or NAS. In the last decade, states like Tennessee have seen a ten-fold rise in the number of babies born with NAS.
One judge in White County, Tennessee is offering a controversial solution to the problem.
Judge Benningfield says he wants to stop prospective mothers and fathers from