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Native Americans and Opioid Addiction: Understanding the Problem

Relias

That number included nearly 3% of all AI/AN youth between the ages of 12-17, indicating that Native Americans and opioid addiction will continue to be an issue in the coming years. Extreme hardship created susceptibility to addiction. These programs may lack sufficient resources for mental health and addiction treatment.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It also assumes that the only solution when, say, a parent’s legal prescription for Oxycontin leads to addiction is to take away the children - as opposed to, say, drug treatment, something discussed in detail here. ?Other While opioids made it worse, West Virginia was a family destruction outlier even before the opioid crisis. ?