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Tenn. judge trades reduced sentences for birth control procedures

America's opioid crisis is expanding to a new class of victims: unborn children. In the last decade, states like Tennessee have seen a tenfold rise in the number of babies born with symptoms of withdrawal, also known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). Now, one judge in White County, Tennessee, is offering a controversial solution to the problem. David Begnaud reports.
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