Kids Suffer from Parents' Meth Addiction. David Crary.
by Crary, David; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 71Health. Publisher: Des Moines Register, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Abusive parents | Child abuse | Children of drug addicts | Drug abuse -- Social aspects | Methamphetamine | Parents -- Drug useDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Jittery babies, mistreated toddlers, strung-out mothers: Cheryll Jones' pediatric nursing practice is far from what it was when she started out 30 years ago--long before methamphetamine invaded this riverside Corn Belt town [Ottumwa, Iowa]. 'If anybody told me my primary caseload would be kids exposed to illicit drugs, I'd have said they were crazy,' said Jones, who now runs a local task force helping the most helpless victims of the nation's meth epidemic--small children whose parents make and use the highly addictive drug. The scars are inflicted in myriad ways: Exposure to the drug in the womb, contamination from toxic chemicals used in home-based meth manufacture, explosions and fires, long-term neglect from parents obsessed with their drug habits, physical abuse and sexual abuse. Many of the meth-lab homes are filthy, often strewn with drug paraphernalia and pornography; meth-making chemicals have been found in diaper bags and toy chests." (DES MOINES REGISTER) This article presents a grim picture of the physical and emotional abuse being imposed on children by their methamphetamine-using parents.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Kids Suffer from Parents' Meth Addiction, March 28, 2005; pp. n.p..
"Jittery babies, mistreated toddlers, strung-out mothers: Cheryll Jones' pediatric nursing practice is far from what it was when she started out 30 years ago--long before methamphetamine invaded this riverside Corn Belt town [Ottumwa, Iowa]. 'If anybody told me my primary caseload would be kids exposed to illicit drugs, I'd have said they were crazy,' said Jones, who now runs a local task force helping the most helpless victims of the nation's meth epidemic--small children whose parents make and use the highly addictive drug. The scars are inflicted in myriad ways: Exposure to the drug in the womb, contamination from toxic chemicals used in home-based meth manufacture, explosions and fires, long-term neglect from parents obsessed with their drug habits, physical abuse and sexual abuse. Many of the meth-lab homes are filthy, often strewn with drug paraphernalia and pornography; meth-making chemicals have been found in diaper bags and toy chests." (DES MOINES REGISTER) This article presents a grim picture of the physical and emotional abuse being imposed on children by their methamphetamine-using parents.
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