Addiction Counselors Embed in Schools Dealing with the Opioid Crisis
September 23, 2018
By: Rachel Gotbaum
Source: The Hechinger Report
When Maddy Nadeau was a toddler, she was often left alone until her sister got home from school.
“I remember mom was always locking herself in her room and she didn’t take care of me,” she said. “And so I was home a little child all by myself. My mom just wasn’t around at the time.”
Every day when her older sister Devon came home from elementary school, she made sure she and Maddy had something to eat.
Both parents struggle with heroin addiction and for several years the sisters moved in with different relatives and foster homes. Sarah Nadeau began fostering them, and last year she adopted them. Nadeau says both girls were anxious and depressed and had a hard time focusing in school — especially Maddy, who was exposed to drugs in utero.