Joanne Harrison Clough, a single mother, and attorney raising her granddaughter, said that when her daughter, Emily, was pregnant, she sought in-person treatments for opioid addiction. However, no one was willing to accept her as a patient.
“She had a terrible time when she was pregnant,” said Clough. “We tried to get her in in-patient rehab, and no one would take her because she was 21 weeks pregnant, high-risk pregnancy. They would not take her.
“And they said, ‘Well, she could go into early labor, or she could die.’ So, she used to sit in my house, and we’d call eight hours a day to rehabs and get turned down. Two phones, two of us, eight hours a day for two weeks, and she would just sob, ‘Mommy, nobody thinks I’m worth helping. Nobody even thinks I’m worth helping.’”…