Professor Catherine Comiskey:

One way to address the education issue is to look at parents. That is certainly where one might get some early intervention. We are now on our third generation of substance abusers in this country. The NACDA has commissioned a study to look at the number of children living with substance abuse. The ROSIE study showed that for every person in treatment, there was at least one child. If we have 10,000 or more opiate users on methadone, it is guaranteed that there are at least 10,000 children living with substance abuse. That is one way to look at it.