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Sunday, Dec. 22
The Indiana Daily Student

The opioid crisis consuming Indiana has put a strain on an unlikely suspect: Foster parents. The number of kids in Indiana’s foster care system is at an all-time high, with more than 19,000 kids under the care of the Department of Child Services. In the four years Kristy and Greg Evans have been licensed foster parents, they’ve taken in 14 children – 10 of whom were pulled from drug-ridden homes. Now, they’re in the process of adopting three of those kids, but they still field calls from caseworkers all the time asking them to take in just one more. Sara Miller

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The opioid crisis consuming Indiana has put a strain on an unlikely suspect: Foster parents. The number of kids in Indiana’s foster care system is at an all-time high, with more than 19,000 kids under the care of the Department of Child Services. In the four years Kristy and Greg Evans have been licensed foster parents, they’ve taken in 14 children – 10 of whom were pulled from drug-ridden homes. Now, they’re in the process of adopting three of those kids, but they still field calls from caseworkers all the time asking them to take in just one more.