Wall Street Journal Shares: "Parents’ Drug Abuse Strains Child-Welfare Agencies"

Holly White-Wolfe 1/15/167:18 AM

Imagine if we could address the issues raised by JON KAMP and ARIAN CAMPO-FLORES in this Jan. 12, 2016 article posted via the online Wall Street Journal:

"The national data don’t specifically measure how many children land in foster care as a result of their parents’ drug use, but some state and local officials say opioid addiction is likely contributing to the increase. The epidemic is being fueled by the overprescribing of pain pills coupled with a cheap and abundant supply of heroin, drug experts say."

Read the full article here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/parents-drug-abuse-strains-child-welfare-agencies-1452538476

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In Vermont, opioid use was a factor in 80% of cases in which a child under the age of 3 was taken into custody, according to one state survey. The number of children under the custody of the Department for Children and Families as of last September grew 40% from two years earlier to 1,373, driven mainly by parental opioid addiction, according to Gov. Peter Shumlin.

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