Opioid Crisis Is Sending A Record Number Of Kids Into Foster Care

According to Circa:

About 78 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.

Janet Siemer is a nurse and single mother from Ohio, one of the states hit hardest by the opioid crisis. Thousands of children get trapped inside the states foster care system waiting to be adopted or turned back over to their parents once they get sober.

Siemer adopted two young children named Landon and Mi after fostering them for two years.

“The reason I became a foster parent is I saw every day how heroin affects families and there were children in need of foster care,” said Janet. “But also because I love children, so why not?”

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