➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Drug-Addiction Epidemic Creates Crisis in Foster Care
Pew Charitable Trust: Stateline – October 07, 2016
Several states, such as New Hampshire and Vermont, have either changed laws to make it possible to pull children out of homes where parents are addicted, or have made room in the budget to hire more social workers to deal with the emerging crisis. Also: These states are struggling with a drug addiction-fueled crisis in foster care: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/states-struggling-drug-addiction-fueled-crisis-foster-care/
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/10/07/drug-addiction-epidemic-creates-crisis-in-foster-care