Mothers Face Broken Addiction Treatment System
This story was produced via a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Data Fellowship. Kayla Quinones began having contractions a few hours after midnight. Her baby, Jacarri, was on the way. Quinones, 33, was homeless at the time and staying with a friend in upstate New York, and when she began to feel the undulating pains, spaced about 8 minutes apart, she called for help. Those pains, her friend told her, were contractions. They needed to get to a hospital….
