Jeff Cohen, WNPR, Author at California Healthline

A Nurse’s Lesson: Babies In Opioid Withdrawal Still Need Mom

By Jeff Cohen, WNPR April 1, 2016

One hospital in Connecticut gives babies and moms fighting addiction a quiet room where they can be together as the drugs leave their systems.

Jeff Cohen, WNPR

Jeff Cohen, WNPR’s news director, is a proud New Orleans native who now calls New England home. Or, at least, his second home. He started in newspapers in 2001 and joined WNPR in 2010. In addition to covering state and Hartford city politics, he covers health care and other issues nationally for NPR. Before joining radio, Jeff worked at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, the Meriden (Conn.) Record-Journal, and as a freelancer for The New York Times. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Jeff lives in Middletown, Conn., with his wife, cats and two kids. Thanks to the kids, he's now written two children's books: “Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut Ever!” and “Eva and Sadie and the Best Classroom Ever!”

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