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Which state do you live in? If you adopted through
DCFS, contact your Adoption Specialist and tell him/her that you need a referal to a therapist who specializes in adoption issues/drug exposure. Your DCFS will either be privately contracting to a therapist or they will use a county or state therapist. We had the choice of going to Davis County or to a private contractor, Touchstone Therapy. We went with Touchstone Therapy out of Salt Lake City because they specialize in adoption/foster/attachment issues/drug issues, etc. Our adoption specialist changed our Medicaid coverage to include this facility. They have been lifesavers to our whole family, because we adopted a meth baby. He is now five years old and since young he has had incredible tantrums, rages, spits, pulls hair, scratches, throws things, etc. We initially thought he was adhd, but our therapist recently said that because of drug exposure, it basically damaged the central nervous system. Therefore he is overstimulated in about a split second, and he responds dramatically to any thing. He also has attachment issues. We have basically been in therapy for two years, and he is also on meds. Drug exposed children have a harder time assimilating the concept of "cause and effect" and therapy has helped tremendously. We are still working on it and probably will long term, and his sunday school teachers and preschool teachers say that he is extremely well behaved and doing well. I highly suggest you contact DCFS for help as a family doctor doesn't have the same exposure to these issues.
hth, Roche1967
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