Children of heroin crisis find refuge in grandparents’ arms

The Boston Globe reports:

Nationwide, 2.6 million grandparents were responsible for their grandchildren in 2014, the census shows, up 8 percent from 2000. Websites and Facebook pages like The Addict’s Mom, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, The Parents of Drug Addicts and Before The Petals Fall are proliferating, drawing tens of thousands of people.

Unlike the crack epidemic, which hit black residents in urban areas particularly hard, this most recent wave of heroin addiction has taken hold largely among whites in the suburbs and rural areas; the death rate from drug overdoses across the country has soared among whites while it has leveled off among blacks and Hispanics.

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