With current federal mandates and state laws, addressing substance use during pregnancy is punitive rather than compassionate. In fact, 23 states and the District of Columbia consider substance use ...
The negative impact of opioids on those who misuse them has been widely documented. Despite significant spillover effects in the form of elevated rates of child maltreatment and child welfare system ...
Passed last year, LB 1173, the bill to reform Nebraska’s child and family welfare system, is in its beginning stages to becoming enacted as a law. As part of its implementation, the Stephen Group, a ...
When I caught up with Dorothy Roberts, a professor of law, sociology and civil rights at the University of Pennsylvania, she had just finished a packed book talk at Revolution Books, a small, aptly ...
On Wednesday, June 18, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the start of PATH NC, the Partnership and Technology Hub for North Carolina, a new statewide information ...