'It's actually very sad to see them withdrawing'Drug-dependent...

The epidemic of opiate addiction in northwest Ohio has led to a steep rise in the number of drug-addicted babies born here, prompting local health-care authorities to launch several programs to help these babies and mothers. ProMedica Toledo Hospital and Toledo Children's Hospital have seen more than a 90-fold increase over the past eight years in the number of babies discharged with neonatal abstinence syndrome, which means the child experienced withdrawal from drugs the mother took during preg