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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. ?

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Native Americans and Opioid Addiction: Understanding the Problem

Relias

Perhaps even more concerning for the future, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that over 5% of the total AI/AN population in 2019 struggled with opioid misuse. Extreme hardship created susceptibility to addiction. began to crack down on opioid use.