I hate that this even has to exist.
Posted on 10/10/2017 6:20:36 PM PDT by KC_Lion
First lady Melania Trump traveled to Huntington, West Virginia, on Tuesday to visit a drug treatment center specializing in helping infants suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome after exposure to opioids while in their mother’s womb.
Trump visited Lily’s Place, a non-profit drug treatment center where these babies are being treated.
“The statistic that 40 percent of babies born addicted to drugs are put into foster care is one that Mrs. Trump would like to see lowered, and Lily’s Place was created with that in mind,” Stephanie Grisham, spokesperson for the first lady, said in an interview with CNN.
Every 25 minutes, a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal in the United States, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a statistic described as a “dramatic increase,” the Associated Press reported.
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I hate that this even has to exist.
How cool...
“The statistic that 40 percent of babies born addicted to drugs are put into foster care is one that Mrs. Trump would like to see lowered...”
Compared to recent memory...
“The statistic that 40 percent of kids eat too much food they like for lunch is one that Mrs. Obama would like to see lowered...”
nice lady, inside and out.
She’ll be wearing the wrong shoes. Count on it.
Me too, but I love our FLOTUS for wanting to help.
OMG, she does a good thing, bless her heart, and the news is her shoes? I guess we will have to ignore it as she does.
Yep! I follow our FLOTUS' lead :)
This is so very sad.
Every damn time. It's always about what she wears and why she should not have worn it. It's never about the grace, elegance, and humility with which she represents her adopted country.
Poor little ones. Jesus weeps.
Wait’ I thought drug use was a victimless crime...
So the left and libertarian tell us...
she should wear the most mundane plain shoes the next several times she does something like this. See what happens...
Outstanding
Traveling on my way back home in Florida.
Just visited my sister who lives in Huntington.
She says the heroin problem begets crime and both have been on a steady rise there?
Like many cities the town in onthe down side.
Great Museum of Art, one fine park running through it. And the Ohio river.
Sad.
Contrast the First Ladies:
The wookie took multi-million dollar vacations, screwed up school lunches, had a battalion of assistants and made an ass of herself everywhere she went.
Melania Trump visits the sick, devastated and homeless with beauty, grace, humility and a loving heart.
No comparison.
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