With up to three hundred thousand children having parents with serious drug problems, is it time to consider radical proposals to reduce this number?
Should the state pay for female drug users to have long-term contraception? Or should it give parents a year to come clean or have their children put up for adoption?
Liz Pearson went to meet two former drug addicts who had used drugs for most of their lives. Gary started using heavily when he split up from his partner and was left looking after their two children. He now runs parenting classes for drug users and alcoholics. Karen had stopped when she was pregnant with her two daughters, but, surrounded by drug users, she soon started injecting again.
And Jenni is joined by Professor Neil McKeganey from the Drug Misuse Research Centre at Glasgow University and Judith Willetts from Drugscope to look at the impact of parental drugs on children and ask what should be done?
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