Q&A: How is the US opioid crisis affecting children?
(WorldNews Health)

NEW YORK (AP) - Public attention to the historic wave of opioid addiction gripping the U.S. has focused mostly on its effect on adults and the thousands who have died of overdoses. Missed by much of the spotlight, though, is a hidden epidemic: children who have fallen victim to opioids` wrath because a parent`s drug use has left them in danger and thrust them into the foster care system. A look at the issues surrounding children caught up in the opioid epidemic: ___ WHAT IS HAPPENING? Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being removed from their homes and placed in the foster care system. ......