US: Lori Falce: Treat addicts to save children (Opinion)
Tribune-Review – November 19, 2021
Evil is easy to judge. Easy to condemn. Easy to fight. Lock up someone who deliberately hurts a child and you remove the problem. But we can’t lock up a thoughtlessly forgotten danger. It’s harder to combat addiction than it is abuse because it spreads like a contagion and settles in like a deep depression. If addiction were easy to root out, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wouldn’t have reported 100,300 drug deaths between May 2020 and April 2021. Because it’s not an easy fix, it becomes more than an addict’s problem. It’s an addict’s family’s problem. It affects parents and spouses. Most tragically, it affects children – sometimes when they watch Mom go in and out of rehab or when Dad goes to jail for possession or when they are taken away and put in foster care.
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