School-Based Counselors Help Kids Cope With Fallout From Drug Addiction [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 12/7/1810:33 AM

When Maddy Nadeau was a toddler, her mother wasn't able to care for her. "I remember Mom was always locking herself in her room and she didn't take care of me. My mom just wasn't around at the time," she says.

Every day, her older sister Devon came home from elementary school and made sure Maddy had something to eat.

"Devon would come home from school and fix them cold hot dogs or a bowl of cereal — very simple items that both of them could eat," says Sarah Nadeau, who fostered the girls and later adopted them.

[For more on this story by RACHEL GOTBAUM, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/h...-from-drug-addiction]

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