$40 Million Issued Through Grants to Aid Children of Meth Parents

The Administration for Children and Families with the Department of Health and Human Services stated that there will be $40 million from the federal government in the form of federal grants issued. The money will be spread out over five years. The grants are going to be handed out to give aid to children whose parents are addicted to methamphetamine or other drugs. The grants in the future will be dependent on funding availability.

The grant money will be issued to 53 organizations all over the U. S., and are they are hoping it will help with the increasing problem in America. A few of those awarded grants are establishing substance abuse programs and ways of treatment and will be aiming at families with in the child welfare program. Others are planning on focusing on intervention and ways of creating better lives for families effected by substance abuse.

It is mentioned that meth has terrible consequences, and that they are very happy with the support that the White House has given the Department of Health. Meth effects the central nervous system of the body and generally gives the user an abundance of energy, decrease in hunger levels, and a rush. However, in the long run, the user will experience lack of sleep, irritability, mood swings, paranoia, and hallucinations. Physically it destroys the teeth and can send body temperatures to dangerous levels. Meth can kill.

An approximate 8.3 million children in the United States live with a parent that needs to get treatment for substance abuse or alcoholism. They are unable to provide homes for their children that are stable and safe. They do not give them the attention that they deserve as a child under their care, and the children will lose out on a healthy environment in which to grow.

Food, clothing, and shelter are not the main concern of the addict, and the child will suffer far more that the parent that is too high to care. Many foster care children are the result of parents that are under the influence of meth.