Western States Wrestle With a Child Welfare Response to Addictive Drugs

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…