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Title: Methamphetamine Abuse and Manufacture: The Child Welfare Response.
Author : Social Work
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 199 KB

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Methamphetamine abuse is on the increase, particularly by females of childbearing age. In California from 1992 to 1998, methamphetamine as a primary drug rose from 11.2 percent to 22.4 percent of all alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment admissions for females, and from 6.8 percent to 13.5 percent for males (Hohman & Clapp, 1999). Initially limited to western states and Hawaii, research suggests that methamphetamine abuse and its clandestine manufacture is spreading to the southern, northwestern, and midwestern United States (Greenblatt & Gfroerer, 1997; U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of National Drug Control Policy, 1997). Once a drug primarily used by white males, methamphetamine use is increasing among Hispanics and Asian Americans, and among gay males (Hohman & Clapp; Maglione, Chao, & Anglin, 1998; Reback & Grella, 1999). In addition to having an effect on the AOD treatment system, methamphetamine use and the problems associated with its manufacture affect the child welfare system. In a recent study of mothers entering San Diego County's AOD treatment system (N = 6,023), 60 percent of those active with child protective services (CPS) described methamphetamine as their primary drug of abuse (Shillington, Hohman, & Jones, 2002). Many of these parents manufactured methamphetamine in their homes; the directions can be obtained from the Internet, and the chemicals used are fairly easy and inexpensive to obtain (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment [CSAT], 1997). Such manufacturing places children at risk of environmental exposure to dangerous chemicals, toxic fumes, and possibly explosions (Irvine & Chin, 1997). From 1997 to 1999, 472 children in California were found in 176 homes during methamphetamine laboratory seizures and were removed by child welfare officials. More than one-third of these children tested positive for illicit drugs because of environmental exposure. Of these children, 386 had dependency petitions filed and sustained in juvenile court (Drug Endangered Children's Resource Center, 2000).