I Blog to Cope in Social Work

Today sucked. It is 12:26am  and I am writing this on my Verizon Samsung phone. I did middle of the night grocery shopping, cleaned my kitchen and still have the events from work poking me in the eye. All else has failed, so I will write. It turns out that writing is pretty therapeutic (something […]

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Republican Introduced A Bill To Prevent Low-Income Women From Having Children

His reasoning is that Some Women may need "a breather" to think about life choices and sterilizing them keeps them from having children. No mention is made of the men who parent children with low income women. Look what I found at AddictingInfo.org! http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/25/this-republican-introduced-a-bill-to-prevent-low-income-women-from-having-children/

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I trade in human misery

I feel like the scum who lives on the dregs of humanity – taking money for other people’s drug addictions and emotional crisis. For as much as I rant and rave or celebrate here, the job often feels like a belt sander is being rubbed against my soul.

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Pregnant and in Drugs

Tomorrow I have an appointment with a woman who is 6 months pregnant and addicted to opiods. I put her in residential rehabilitation and she walked out within a day. She believes that quitting get drugs will kill her baby. Actually, that’s what she wants me to believe.  She believes that quitting will kill her. […]

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