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Born Addicted: Growing Numbers of Newborns in Crisis

For the past two years, the Courier-Journal has been investigating Kentucky’s prescription drug abuse epidemic, with reporting by the C-J's medical writer Laura Ungar. Friday Laura joined us on Byline to talk about the latest installment in the series, focusing on newborns suffering from serious opiate withdrawal symptoms because of the drug use of their mothers.

Brad Yost is a senior producer for LPM. Email Brad at byost@lpm.org.