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This report is based on a study conducted by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families that set out to determine the effect that methamphetamine, or “meth,” has had on Arkansas’s child welfare system. The results of the study brought the author to both interesting and disturbing conclusions about the way the system deals with substance abuse in general.