I'm trying to find out the policy on this: If a woman, who is getting prenatal care, is on methadone, and has no other prescriptions or illegal drugs in her system, gives birth before being able to completely withdraw from methadone (getting off methadone too quickly causes fetal distress), will the hospital automatically get child services called? Or because it is a prescription, will they leave the family in peace? My sister is at an extremely low dose but is terrified there will still be methadone in the baby, not only for what the baby would endure, but because child services in our state snatches children then abandons them into foster care (usually in very poor neighborhoods), and over 100 children have been murdered by foster parents in the past 15 years here. My sister's other child is in private school, very well adjusted and well cared for, and she is terrified they will not only take her baby but ruin her older child's life as well-they have unlimited power, it seems. Help!
2007-11-30
04:34:00
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