# 64

Parents overdose on suspected heroin and die in home; unattended 5 month old baby dies from dehydration and starvation four or five days later.

In previous posts, we have read how courts have assigned custody for children of substance use disorder parents who were found in vehicles, shopping aisles and at home - but revived by Narcan.  In these examples, Society - expressing itself through the Courts - recognizes that the expected competence of so-called "adult" parents has fallen short of expected behavior of adult parents.

Why not consider issuing guardians to  all substance use disorder adults whose proponents stress are incapable of resisting the substance(s) which direct their being?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/coroner-baby-died-days-parents-suspected-overdoses-44385094