child welfare

NYC Officials Propose “Universal Affordable Housing”

Imagine a homeless family of three fortunate enough to receive a rental assistance voucher from the city of New York.…

February 5, 2020

What Harm Reductionists Think About Sesame Street’s Addiction Representation

Sesame Street, the long-running children’s television show, has taken on issues ranging from exercise to incarceration. On October 9, Sesame…

October 17, 2019

Childhood Development Issues and Adult Addiction Fit the Same Pattern

Behavioral-developmental challenges in childhood and addiction problems in adulthood are two sides of the same coin. Both constitute self-defeating patterns…

May 21, 2019

Our Irrational Cruelty to Pregnant or Parenting People Who Use Drugs

Keri, now 35 and studying to become an addiction treatment counselor in Illinois, learned she was pregnant in 2016. In…

April 13, 2019

A Cop at My Bedside: The Nightmare of Disclosing MAT Before Giving Birth

I gave birth to my elder daughter in Palm Beach County, Florida in 2014. She was delivered by paramedics after…

April 5, 2019

We Need More Focus on How the Drug War Attacks Parents of Color

It would be hard to dispute that the War on Drugs, instigated by President Nixon in 1971, has deliberately targeted…

March 28, 2019

Drug Laws Undermine Ethics for Social Workers in Child Welfare

As a 20-year-old undergraduate student who had limited familiarity with substance use beyond alcohol, the most formative aspect of my…

March 21, 2019