News Items – June 21, 2017
Peter Callahan is a member:
The Addicts Next Door
The New Yorker
Peter Callahan, a psychotherapist in Martinsburg, said that heroin “is a very tough drug to get off of, because, while it was meant to numb physical pain, it numbs emotional pain as well—quickly and intensely.” In tight-knit Appalachian towns, heroin has become a social contagion. Nearly everyone I met in Martinsburg has ties to someone—a child, a sibling, a girlfriend, an in-law, an old high-school coach—who has struggled with opioids. As Callahan put it, “If the lady next door is using, and so are other neighbors, and people in your family are, too, the odds are good that you’re going to join in.”
Local healthcare groups urge senators to drop AHCA
KXAN (Austin, TX)
More than 20 healthcare and community groups in Central Texas say they are frightened about the future of healthcare. They are closely watching what happens with American Health Care Act, which is now in the hands of the U.S. Senate. The details of the Republican-backed bill is still a mystery; and, many Medicaid patients are worried that the bill will slash state funding by millions of dollars. That group of 20 health and social agencies wrote a letter to US Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. The group includes the Texas chapters of the March of Dimes, the Children’s Defense Fund and the National Association of Social Workers.
Reidsville man sought after shots fired at social worker (Video)
Greensboro.com (NC)
A man allegedly upset about a child custody case is being sought by law enforcement in two counties after shots were fired into the vehicle of a social worker. Rockingham County sheriff’s investigators, the Burlington Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation are looking for Christopher Lee Neal, 42, of Reidsville, who is charged with having shot into the car of Carlietha Rosanna Glover, a social worker for Rockingham County Social Services, as she was driving home from work Tuesday night.
I had an anxiety attack in school, and a social worker saved me. What about the students without one?
Chalkbeat
My first anxiety attack was in a school hallway. Nestled between a doorway and a red bulletin board of exemplary student work, I collapsed. My sight became hazy. My breath became nonexistent. My limbs became numb. Tears stained my cheeks. My heart beat like a broken machine. I raised my head up to see a teacher closing the door and pulling the blinds, isolating me from the eyes of curious students. I felt like I was merely a nuisance interrupting her lesson. “Zubaida! Zubaida!” I turned my head to see the school social worker, Ms. McNeil, running down the hall. She sat next to me, held my hand, and slowed my breathing down. I had never talked to the social worker before. However, after my first anxiety attack, she became an important part of my life.
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