parenting

Vaping Around Kids Is Far Safer for Them Than Smoking

Children absorb far less nicotine from people vaping around them indoors than they do from secondhand smoking, researchers found, suggesting…

July 31, 2024

Child Drug Exposure Cases, and the Vilification of Parents Who Use Drugs

The woman, flanked by detectives in the video, hangs her head as they cuff her. “It never should have happened,”…

July 22, 2024

Over 321,000 Children Lost Parents to Overdose in a Decade

A new study from the National Institutes of Health quantifies the vast number of children in the United States who…

May 10, 2024

NY Cases Underline Harms of Drug Testing During Pregnancy

Jane* didn’t think much about the Sam’s Club salad she’d eaten days before she was to give birth in March…

April 18, 2024

Virginia Cannabis Bills on Sales, Parenting, Resentencing Now With Gov. Youngkin

Virginia’s Democrat-led legislature passed a number of marijuana-related bills in recent weeks, sending them to Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. He…

March 7, 2024

“Cannamoms” Find Community Can Overcome Stigma

Almost nobody in Ashley’s* life knows that she uses cannabis to help cope with her anxiety as a mother. She’s…

January 10, 2024

Moms Can Lead the Fight to End the Drug War

I teared up as I watched Leroy Walker Sr., whose son was killed in the recent mass shooting in Maine,…

November 28, 2023

New Center Offers Free Legal Services to People Who Use Drugs in NJ

Rutgers Law Associates (RLA) and Vital Strategies recently announced the launch of a center to provide free legal services for…

November 28, 2022

Drug Use Is Perfectly Compatible With Good Parenting

Many of us are parenting while using drugs. Sometimes with a single drink at dinner; sometimes with criminalized substances; sometimes…

June 2, 2021