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West Virginia ordered to allow father on Suboxone to adopt
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30489
Subject(s) - west virginia , state (computer science) , addiction , government (linguistics) , psychology , criminology , political science , psychiatry , geography , computer science , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm
If you are taking medication to treat addiction, the state cannot use that to ban you from adopting a child. That's the underlying message in a landmark ruling against the West Virginia Bureau of Children and Families (BCF) by the federal government. The case involved an adoptive father taking Suboxone.