Kansas Drug Endangered Children Data

• Estimates indicate that more than 62,000 Kansas children live in homes where alcohol or other drugs are abuse and that more than 4,500 Kansas infants are born prenatally exposed to substance every year.
  

• In Fiscal Year 2010, 307 pregnant women were admitted to state-funded substance abuse treatment programs.
  

• More than 11,400 Kansas children lived with adults who were admitted to substance abuse treatment in Fiscal year 2010. Thirty-six percent of individuals admitted to treatment had children under the age of 18 in the home.

• In Fiscal Year 2010 parental substance abuse was the leading removal reason for children placed in out of home placement, accounting for 19% of the state's 3,444 removals. 

In 2010 the Kansas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children authored a data report to gauge the number of Kansas children affected by caregiver substance abuse. You can download the complete Kansas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children data report or a brief version. 

Visit the Kansas Bureau of Investigation website for data regarding meth lab seizures.