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Children of Heroin Crisis Find Refuge in Grandparents’ Arms

NEWS - grandparents

Boston Globe: by Katharine Q. Seelye

With the rise in heroin use, grandparents are increasingly raising their grandchildren because the parents are either dead, in jail, in rehab or otherwise incapable of taking care of their children. Read full article here.

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