STAT June 8, 2024
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“Mothers in treatment for opioid use disorder shouldn’t also have to fight child protective services,” by Arthur Robin Williams and Judith Cole
I completely agree with this article and feel strongly that pregnant women have been wrongly “labeled” as unfit or not worthy of being...