{"id":50702,"date":"2015-07-08T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nbc_pregnant_and_hooked_how_one_program_helps_heroin_addicts\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:45:09","slug":"nbc_pregnant_and_hooked_how_one_program_helps_heroin_addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50702","title":{"rendered":"(NBC) Pregnant and Hooked: How One Program Helps Heroin Addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News that rates of heroin use doubled among women over the past decade doesn&#8217;t surprise Shea, who&#8217;s 26 and pregnant. She&#8217;s also a newly clean addict.<\/p>\n<p>It also doesn&#8217;t surprise the staff at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Perinatal Addiction Treatment program in New Hampshire, where Shea got help to reduce the odds of giving birth to an addicted baby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came to treatment because I wanted to get well and I wanted to take care of my son and I wanted to get the chance to be a mother,&#8221; Shea, who asked that her last name not be used, told NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Shea got off heroin with the help of the program \u201d\u201d set up to help women get clean before they give birth, so their babies won&#8217;t be born addicted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/pregnant-hooked-how-one-program-helps-heroin-addicts-n388316\">Read it all<\/a> (video well worthwhile).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that rates of heroin use doubled among women over the past decade doesn&#8217;t surprise Shea, who&#8217;s 26 and pregnant. She&#8217;s also a newly clean addict. It also doesn&#8217;t surprise the staff at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Perinatal Addiction Treatment program in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50702\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,101,99,104,98,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}