By Jeremy Loudenback
The Imprint, CalMatters Network
Should kids be removed from home more quickly when their parents are using fentanyl — a drug that the nation’s Drug Enforcement Administrator has called “the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered?” Or is the country returning to a decades-old playbook from the misguided “war against crack mothers?”
Washington state Sen. Claire Wilson’s bill would step up child welfare enforcement when drugs like fentanyl are present in a home with kids.
Recent developments in two western states — a region where children have died from the accidental ingestion of synthetic opioids — reveal opposite approaches.
