For the second year in a row, life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped, and the CDC is attributing the cause to opioid abuse. Rare Media is about to launch an extensive series about the opioid crisis' smallest victims – babies born to dependent mothers who are themselves, addicted. Gayle Putrich, Rare's Heartland Editor, tells how communities in Ohio and West Virginia are trying to help.
Ohio and West Virginia are at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic. Putrich tells us about Huntington West Virginia, where one in five babies born at Cabel hospital there has been exposed to drugs in the womb.
This condition is called Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. With so few resources dedicated to helping these children and families, clinics such as Brigid's Path in Ohio and Lily's Place in West Virginia are helping through grants and donations.
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Attorneys general from across the U.S. have written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13.
Jill is back with Carlo to try to break down what's going on with the sudden escalation of violence in Israel, the latest in the vaccination drive, inflation watch, and the return of the greatest couple of the 2000s.
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The police officer who carried a 4-year-old girl to safety says the child barely cried on the way to the hospital after being hit shot in Times Square.
British authorities are seeking to recapture a young minke whale lost far from home in the Thames River after it escaped from rescuers overnight.
Friend of the pod Baker Machado joins Carlo to go over a busy weekend in news: the CDC makes a big change to its guidance on COVID transmission, the state of the GOP, Afghanistan unraveling, a possible labor shortage, and more.
With the pandemic shifting consumer behavior even more online, this year’s NewsFront virtual festivities marked changing habits that are here to stay.
