This video by AJ+ opens with a baby shaking uncontrollably because of a drug addiction – there is an opioid crisis that is sweeping the United States, more and more babies are born with addictions. In the past ten years over 130,000 children were born with drug addictions.
Braxton and his brother Jacoby are two children with addictions – their mother admits that she was in labour, in the bathroom shooting heroin…
U.S law stipulates that babies born with addiction need to be reported to social services, but more than often that is not the case.
And while doctors and policy makers are recognising it as a crisis,not enough is being done to make the system watertight.