Kentucky has very high rate of addicted mothers
(WorldNews Health)

Kentucky has had a very high rate of opioid-use disorder among women delivering babies in hospitals, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More recent data indicate that the problem did not worsen in 2015 and 2016 like it did in the five years before that, but remains very bad. In Kentucky, 19.3 mothers out of every 1,000 who gave birth in a hospital in 2014 had an opioid-use disorder. Among the 30 states studied, only two were ahead of Kentucky: Vermont, at 48.6 per 1,000, and West Virginia at 32.1. The national rate is 6.5 per 1,000. West Virginia was the only state adjoining...