CNN (7/15, Nigam) reports, “As the opioid crisis swept across the” U.S., the number of children “entering the foster care system” increased. Investigators found that “from 2000 to 2017, there was a 147% increase in foster care entries due to parents’ drug use.”
NPR (7/15, Neilson) reports that for the study, investigators “analyzed data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).” The researchers examined almost five “million instances of children entering foster care between 2000 and 2017 and analyzed how many times foster children were removed from their homes due to their parents’ drug use each year.” The findings were published online in a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics.
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— “There was a dramatic rise in kids entering foster care due to parents’ drug use, study says, “Minali Nigam, CNN, July 15, 2019