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Cascading down to addicted babies, decisions made by adults are now impacting grandparents and a raft of societal institutions.

In this article, substance free grandparents are reporting how they've placed their lives on hold while babies live with them through methadone weaning from opioids and are now toddlers, substance-free, but growing through important years without substance use disorder parents.

One quote from the article:  

Foster-care experts say that as the drug epidemic has intensified during the past two years, another rush of children has entered the system. State budgets are stretched, social workers are overloaded, and not enough families are willing to provide children with temporary homes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-opioid-crisis-is-straining-the-nations-foster-care-systems/2017/06/30/97759fb2-52a1-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_fostercare-936am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c6ea79d30bce