NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

● Stateline reports on something some in the medical profession are doing about it: Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients’ treatment and recovery from substance use disorder and combat racial disparities in testing and reporting. ●

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Nervous Breakdown and Substance Abuse Similar to depression, a nervous breakdown can push someone to abuse alcohol, prescription drugs, or illicit drugs. Conversely, substance use disorder is sometimes an underlying reason for a mental breakdown. That's the essence of " normal functioning."

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Without rapid hospital treatment, septicemia can lead to sepsis, which is life-threatening. Alcohol’s effect on the immune system can also affect cancer recovery. Contact Gateway Foundation to learn more about how we can help you or your loved one pursue recovery.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This is because they develop treatment plans to address mental illness and substance abuse problems, often holding supervisory roles and advocating for human rights within the criminal justice system. Social workers also play important roles in schools, hospitals, and other public settings.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Walsh explores the role of social workers in mental health settings, such as hospitals, clinics, and community agencies. In various settings, social workers help people manage everyday life challenges and larger problems, from mental health, to poverty, to trauma recovery. Addressing substance abuse and addiction issues.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, in more than two-thirds of all Massachusetts cases, no substance abuse of any kind is even alleged. Second, all substance use isn’t opioids. There is no breakdown of how often the substance at issue is one that is now legal in Massachusetts: marijuana. That, too, fails for several reasons.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Oh yes it can: Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found.

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