Pregnant and Addicted

Overcoming Stigma to Find Treatment

The small waiting room in the basement of Magee Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh looks more like a business than a doctor’s office. No nurse behind a glass window guards a back area; there’s just a desk in the corner and 11 chairs along the room’s perimeter. Five women and an older man, all accompanied by babies, sit in these chairs.

They chat casually among themselves—about probiotics and trying solid foods for the first time, donating clothes as their babies grow out of them, Halloween costumes. An easy…