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Substance Use is Driving Children into Foster Care. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

If you need more evidence that substance use has a long-lasting and far-reaching impact, consider this heartbreaking data: The ongoing escalation of opioid use is driving a surge in children and youth entering foster care systems across the nation. Even before COVID-19 upended global health, North Carolina’s foster care system was already experiencing “record levels of need” driven largely by opioid use. During the 2017-18 fiscal year, parental substance abuse was the primary reason children were removed from the household … Continue reading “Substance Use is Driving Children into Foster Care. Here’s What We Can Do About It.”