Families in Crisis, Challenges for Policymakers: Examining the Troubled Lives of Drug-Endangered Children
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2010
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Ohio Northern University Law Review
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The purpose of this article is to supplement the medical community’s knowledge about the dangers of exposing children to controlled substances by collecting data from government agencies and those entities charged by policymakers with protecting drug-endangered children. The data for this article, as described in Part III, were collected by members of the Salt Lake City Police Department’s COPS Methamphetamine Initiative from police agencies, prosecutors, child protection offices, and substance abuse treatment services providers operating within Salt Lake County.14 Once collected, these cases were analyzed to address the following questions and issues of concern among the agencies involved in this research project: 1. Who are the suspects in these cases and what are their criminal, legal, psychiatric, and treatment histories? 2. What properties defined the scenes of these investigations?
3. What agencies were contacted by police to aid in the investigations? 4. What mental and physical outcomes occurred in children as a result (at least partially) of being victims of drug endangerment? 5. Does Child Protective Services (“CPS”) involvement increase after these incidents? 6. How often are victims removed to foster care? 7. Did outcomes affecting the families and victims differ depending on the drug(s) found on scene? (Author Text)
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child abuse, substance abuse, police, legal issues, intervention, research
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Nelson, Stephen L. ; Prince, Kort C. ; Searcy, Marjean. (2010). Families in Crisis, Challenges for Policymakers: Examining the Troubled Lives of Drug-Endangered Children. Ohio Northern University Law Review, 36(1), 82- 115.