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CHARLESTON – A New York bankruptcy court order is allowing more than 270 additional claims to be filed on behalf of West Virginia children suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
Last month, federal bankruptcy Judge Robert D. Drain issued an order in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy case that allows the filing of 272 NAS claimant proofs of claim.
““It is now clear that many, many families did not receive notice of the Purdue bankruptcy,” attorney Booth Goodwin told
The West Virginia Record. “We were certainly pleased to be able to provide these parents and guardians with the opportunity to submit claims on behalf of their children who really are the most vulnerable victims of the opioid crisis.”
Last July a controversial Tennessee law that punished women who gave birth to drug-dependent babies was allowed to expire due to concerns it was sending drug-addicted mothers-to-be into hiding, or to abortion clinics to avoid jail time. The law was passed six years earlier, ostensibly to help combat a rising epidemic of babies born addicted to drugs, known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
With this law out of the way, the state has returned to its earlier practice of eliminating punishment in favor of treatment. Ballad Health has now doubled down on that approach with a major investment in serving the specialized needs of not just pregnant women and babies who suffer from addition, but entire families.