Aside from the drug users themselves, perhaps no one has suffered more from the methamphetamine epidemic than Alabama’s children. According to Freida Baker, deputy director of family and children’s services for the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR), in 2001, only 3.9 percent of admissions to foster care in Alabama were due to substance abuse. By 2004, however, nearly 20…
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