When she learned her baby would be born drug-affected, Rachael Kinder was consumed by shame and guilt. “My heart hurt,” she tells People. The West Virginia native, at 27, had been in active heroin addiction for 10 years before giving birth to her second child, Kryie.
Although in recovery when she conceived Kyrie with Dylan Hickey, her partner of two years, doctors advised Rachael to continue with the medication-assisted therapy, methadone, which would virtually promise that Kyrie would be born with the drug-withdrawal symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or Nas.
Unfortunately, that’s not uncommon in a state where opioid abuse is...
Although in recovery when she conceived Kyrie with Dylan Hickey, her partner of two years, doctors advised Rachael to continue with the medication-assisted therapy, methadone, which would virtually promise that Kyrie would be born with the drug-withdrawal symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or Nas.
Unfortunately, that’s not uncommon in a state where opioid abuse is...
- 5/11/2017
- by Alexandra Rockey Fleming
- PEOPLE.com
For nearly a decade, Rachael Kinder’s life had been ruled by heroin. But last year, after repeated attempts, the Milton, West Virginia, native managed to break her addiction via a mix of counseling and methadone, the medication-recovery drug. She reconnected with Dylan Hickey, a childhood friend and former addict, and they became a happy couple, looking to a future free of the pain and instability of opioid dependence.
And then Rachael, 27, found herself pregnant. “I felt so scared,” she tells People. “I knew I had to stay on the methadone throughout my pregnancy, and no one wants their baby to suffer.
And then Rachael, 27, found herself pregnant. “I felt so scared,” she tells People. “I knew I had to stay on the methadone throughout my pregnancy, and no one wants their baby to suffer.
- 5/10/2017
- by Alexandra Fleming
- PEOPLE.com
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