Parents who inject drugs: Demographics, care arrangements and correlates for child placement in out-of-home care.
Jocelyn ChanBernadette M WardLisa MaherSione CrawfordMark StoovéPaul M DietzePublished in: Drug and alcohol review (2023)
We identified high rates of child placement in OOHC among parents who inject drugs. There is a need for targeted health and social services, that are gender and culturally responsive, in addition to systems-level interventions addressing social inequities, such as housing, to support parents to care for their children.