To the Editor We congratulate Meinhofer and Angleró-Díaz on the publication of their study regarding trends within foster care and parental drug use.¹ As Meinhofer and Angleró-Díaz note, the results of the study closely mirror trends of the opioid epidemic that currently plagues the United States.¹ The authors note that literature is scarce on associations between parental opioid use and foster care intervention.¹ A follow-up of this study including new analysis, such as filtering for opioid-specific parental drug use as well as stratifying data by year from 2013 to 2017, can potentially expose trends within the opioid crisis and fill the paucity of literature on this topic.

致编辑我们祝贺Meinhofer和Angleró-Díaz发表了有关寄养和父母吸毒趋势的研究报告。¹正如Meinhofer和Angleró-Díaz所指出的那样，研究结果紧密反映了目前困扰美国的阿片类药物流行趋势。¹作者指出，关于父母使用阿片类药物和寄养护理干预之间的联系的文献很少。¹这项研究的后续行动，包括新的分析，例如对阿片类药物特定的父母药物的使用进行过滤，以及从2013年至2017年的分层数据，可能会暴露出阿片类药物危机内的趋势，并且对此文献的填补不足话题。