MRS. TRUMP TO VISIT BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

   The White House announced today that Melania Trump would be visiting Boston Medical Center on Wednesday to review an experimental program designed to help infants recover from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. This is a medical condition---really discovered in the late 1980s---in which infants born to mothers who take narcotics while pregnant exhibit the effects of withdrawal after birth. 

  According to the White House, “Mrs. Trump will receive a briefing from the Boston Medical Center Staff on the status of these programs. Following the briefing, Mrs. Trump will tour Boston Medical Center’s Pediatric Unit to see first-hand how these programs are implemented and meet with the children and families who have been successfully treated.”

  A spokesman for Boston Medical Center told The Boston Globe that the new approaches were tried in 2016, and in 2018 were adopted as hospital policy. He described the treatment---which is apparently coordinated with social workers---as follows:  "Non-pharmacologic treatment approaches included parental presence at the infant’s bedside, skin to skin contact, and breastfeeding as first-line treatment. Parents were educated about the importance of their presence and contact with their infants, and infants were cared for in a pediatrics inpatient room with a bed for parents once mothers were discharged for their immediate postpartum care.”

   This is really a great idea, and somewhat commonsense. I would suspect that this treatment also collaterally probably benefits the mothers as well. The bonding they experience with their babies easily could bring out their maternal instincts, making them more receptive to drug dependency rehabilitation. As far as the infants involved, the Hospital reports that since last year,  “The need to treat infants with medication decreased from 87 to 40 percent; the average length of hospital stay decreased from an average of 17 days to 11 days; and average hospital charges per infant decreased to approximately $21,000, down from $32,000."

   Mrs. Trump is conducting the visit as part of her Be Best Initiative. Breaking the cycle of Narcotics Abuse among young people and children is one of Be Best's main goals. Her endorsement of the Hospital's program could lead to its implementation in other medical systems across the country. 

   The physical effects of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome are well-documented; however, judging by some of the comments following the Globe article, many of the Whacko Left in Boston exhibit the psychological effects of drug abuse too. Whether they're actually doing drugs or not, with Election Day coming up they give us a peek into the mentality of the typical Liberal Democrat. 

  

    There you have it: the Whacko Left Wing in all the glory of its compassion and 'it takes a village' philosophy. Meanwhile---while the Left stews in its bile---Mrs. Trump will be doing more for needy children than her predecessor, or most other Democrats for that matter, ever bothered to do.