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Education Week
Amid Opioid Crisis,
Schools Help Students Heal
By Carmen Rojas
December 28, 2016
The U.S. is facing an opioid crisis. Deaths have nearly quadrupled in
the last 15 years — the latest figures show 91 Americans dying from
opiod overdoses every day.
In hard-hit states like West Virginia, parents' addiction to pain
pills, fentanyl, or heroin has torn many families apart. With 5,000
children now in foster care, a 24% increase over the past five years,
the state's schools are grappling with ways to support children
affected by drug abuse.
In this report for the PBS NewsHour, Education Week Correspondent Lisa
Stark traveled to rural Jackson County, W.Va, to see how one school
district is responding.
This video aired on PBS NewsHour on December 27, 2016.
See the video at Education Week
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