| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. The opioid crisis is straining the nation’s foster-care systems
(...) Foster-care experts say that as the drug epidemic has intensified during the past two years, another rush of children has entered the system. State budgets are stretched, social workers are overloaded, and not enough families are willing to provide children with temporary homes.
American foster care, experts say, is in crisis. (Washington Post, 01.07.2017)