Pregnant and Addicted: Homeless Women See Hope in Street Medicine ...Middle East

REDDING, Calif. — Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. Her baby, Kyle, who had been born three months prematurely, was in respiratory failure in the neonatal intensive care unit and fighting for his life. The odds had been against Kyle long before he was born last summer. Crespo, who was abused as a child, was addicted to fentanyl and meth — a daily habit she found impossible to kick while living homeless. Crespo got a ride to the hospital and cradled her baby in her arms as he died. “I know this happened because of my addiction,” Cres

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