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One man in the Bahamas tried to ride out the storm the door broke apart. I opened it see the ocean rushing through a. Hurricane Dorian is now hitting the Carolinas this is w. G.b.h. Is All Things Considered. With Mary Louise Kelly in Ari Shapiro I'm a rumor off Also this hour the fallout from 2 tweets considered reckless even by Trump standards one sharing a highly classified spy photo the other raising a false alarm about hurricane dangers posed to Alabama today the president doubled down on that false alarm doctors who become addicted to opioids often have to quit cold turkey if they want to get their licenses back the Ph D.'s basically say do whatever we say or we won't give you a letter that will help you get back to work so they put a gun to your head and Revere Beach got a facelift but will it last in the face of climate change That's all ahead on w g.b.h. Is All Things Considered after this news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying people across the Carolinas are monitoring Hurricane Dorian's approach and bracing for the damage it's powerful enough to inflict it's a Category 2 storm with 110 mile per hour winds it spun off suspected tornadoes took down L'Arche trees and knocked out electricity to more than $200000.00 homes and businesses N.P.R.'s Bobbie Allen is in Charleston South Carolina which has fared better than predicted but still could get up to 15 inches of rain more than $100.00 city roads are closed here in Charleston after Dorian's Wenzel whipped close to 70 miles per hour knocking out power lines knocking down trees there a band of relentless downpours that have caused widespread flooding Dorian could also bring storm surges see above ground and residents are being told to buckle down and stay indoors well into the evening N.P.R.'s Bobbie Allen in Charleston South Carolina the hurricane killed at least 20 people when it was far more powerful Category 5 storm hovering over the Bahamas earlier this week it obliterated entire communities prompting an international humanitarian response Prime Minister you were minister tells n.p.r. About the scope of the damage in his country thing. A city that had developed. Well for some of these proper school what you have where water has developed. All that different infrastructure thing battling this thing to bring our band to morrow it's a sleek being shot in the prime minister's full interview airs today on N.P.R.'s All Things Considered the top u.s. General for Afghanistan is anticipating that counterterrorism operations will still be necessary even if the u.s. And Taliban reach a peace deal and thousands of American troops come home N.P.R.'s Tom Bowman reports on the role American forces are now playing in Afghanistan 18 years after u.s. Led forces overthrew the Taliban in the hunt for the man behind the 911 terror attacks 14000 u.s. Troops in Afghanistan are training Afghan troops in fighting the Taliban as well as al Qaeda in ISIS demonstrate McKenzie said today that even with a peace deal the remain a need for some type of counter terror effort because he expects terrorist groups to continue threatening the u.s. And Europe we believe that ISIS and al Qaeda even have aspirational dream to doing that and some for pressure is going to be necessary going forward we can explore what that's going to look like it could be a broad variety of things but I don't think you can believe that uncontested the Taliban says they'll only agree to a peace deal that includes the withdrawal of all u.s. Troops from Afghanistan talks between the 2 sides continue Tom Bowman n.p.r. News Amman Jordan all major u.s. Stock indices closed higher about one and a half percent this is n.p.r. From the radio newsroom in Boston I'm a rock civil rights groups in Massachusetts are suing the trumpet ministration over its move to phase out a program giving temporary legal status to seriously ill immigrants and family members being treated in the u.s. The groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the decision by u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services the Irish Internet. Immigrant center which works locally with families that benefit from the program is the plaintiff in the case Ronnie Miller is the group's executive director it's life saving treatment that they're getting so if they were to pull back to their home country it would be for sure it didn't send a Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman says the agency does not comment on pending litigation following protests the agency said it would still process applications for the program that were pending when the change was announced Massachusetts sheriffs are expanding their efforts to fight opiate addiction in county jails the new pilot program was launched this month in 7 of the states 14 counties jails and a participating counties are given inmates access to 3 federally approved opioid addict opioid treatment medications including methadone the program was required in an opioid bill approved on Beacon Hill last year just taking part of the program are in Suffolk Middlesex Norfolk Essex Franklin Hampton and Hampshire counties a couple of Democratic presidential candidates are making the rounds in Massachusetts over the next few days former Texas congressman better O'Rorke is speaking at Tufts University this afternoon and he's heading to the backlash beer company in Roxbury tonight both of vents are open to the public this is a warts 1st campaign trip to Massachusetts Meanwhile California senator Kamelot Harris is holding a fundraiser in the Back Bay on Saturday night tickets for that event start at $46.00 and go all the way up to $3000.00 In sports the Red Sox host the twins again tonight at Fenway 1st pitch is at $710.00 cloudy this afternoon with temperatures in the sixty's cloudy again tomorrow with rain moving in to morrow night thanks to Hurricane Dorian the rain will continue through Saturday morning before lightening up in the afternoon sunny on Sunday for more original reporting this is doubly g.b.h. News dot org Support for n.p.r. Comes from the Alfred p. Sloan Foundation bridging science and the arts by supporting Please continue part of l.a. Theatre Works relativity series of science audio place more at Slone dot org And listeners like you who donate to this n.p.r. Station. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Ari Shapiro hurricane Dorian is pounding the Carolinas parts of downtown Charleston are already flooded it has weakened since it hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm at least 20 people are confirmed dead there and that number is expected to rise as recovery efforts are just beginning parts of the Abaco Island in the Bahamas are destroyed Alex a pair o. Stayed in the Adipose town of Marsh Harbor thinking he could ride out the storm with his 2 dogs but hurricane Dorian destroyed his home while he was still inside of it and I want to warn listeners that this is a wrenching story Alex thank you for talking with All Things Considered You're welcome 1st of all Are you Ok Were you injured or hurt during the storm. It's a miracle I'm alive still. So I understand when the storm came you went to a central room of your house that you thought would be safe can you tell me what happened then yeah so few hours before that the I hit I could hear my house tearing apart around me I happen to get cell signal so I called my sister and screaming begging her to tell me where the eye is because I knew my house wasn't going to hold up yeah I could hear it foaling down the portico over my head. The water was rushing under the door it was seawater at. The door broke apart and I could see the you could see daylight and I just so confused I didn't understand why then I realized the house was torn apart and then. Properly saw the ocean coming through I couldn't believe it you sent us a video of the dogs on the console table and you were trying to speak calmly to them and this huge wave of water just comes pounding again yes so I shut the door and I go outside the waves are like 78 feet above me crashing over my head how did you survive that so. Few days before. Every problem is to get a life and I said Yeah but I did it and I was removing a doctor ladder just it wouldn't get damaged in the storm and and that was removing . Life that was floated up to me a life vest just came to you that's incredible. So I thought What the hell let me just grab it it was an extra one and I threw it in the garage. And when the garage was gone the only thing that washed up to me when I was trying to leave the house was that life vest put it on you Alex I'm so sorry for what you've been through I just hear our own this was. So I managed to. Climb on the side of the rock wall my house. Right across the foundation of what used to be my neighbor's house and then to the next house I knew they were the only people on my street and they'd open the door about 30 seconds before it was the I the storm screaming begging my friend Chris Appleby please help me. I'm not going to leave my dogs so we made it back with the waves we got the dogs we. Tried to call my husband. So he. Wanted to. Be without me but I couldn't because there was no cell signal and then we got into this is going through bunker and then the 2nd half of the storm to about 5 minutes later and how long did you have to stay there before your evacuated to have to face. I know that you are still wrestling with your own experience but as this storm hits the Carolinas and millions of people are under evacuation orders there what message do you have for them there there is no words to describe the power of the ocean and I usually blow this stuff off and don't be ridiculous it's going to be fine. I can't believe I'm alive. These people have got to take things seriously just get the hell out. Alex a pair oh I'm so glad that you're Ok and your dogs as well thank you. Here in the u.s. Hurricane Dorian is battering South Carolina and it is expected to continue traveling northwest up the coast Alabama is not in the path of the storm and yet this week President Trump has tweeted more about Alabama than about South Carolina he has said repeatedly that Alabama was projected to be in Dorian's path he went so far as to hold up a map that had been modified with a marker to show the storm headed to Alabama and. Not only Florida Georgia aerator was going towards the goal that was. Going to originally projected So why is the president still talking about a state where the storm is not headed even after being corrected by the National Weather Service small Let's ask n.p.r. White House correspondent Tamara Keith Hey there hi hi Why is the president focused on Alabama so this all started with an error President Trump was at fema getting a briefing on the storm on Sunday and he said something that may have been true a few days earlier but it simply wasn't true at the time that he said it and it may be you know a little piece of. A great plays a role of a hell of an ability to be indoors. At least in very strong warnings and that it could be this is a game of unfortunately. The storm that we're looking for is easy to false and now the National Weather Service Birmingham quickly tweeted that Alabama would not see any impacts from Dorian and then it sort of snowballed in the way that things snowball in this administration so there was news coverage of the president's odd mention of Alabama that the president started tweeting in response to the news coverage that all led to that weird incident in the Oval Office with the president whole holding up a modified map which of course led to more coverage which led to the president tweeting about it today he tweeted what I said was accurate. All fake news in order to demean So although there are parts of the us that right now are being affected by this hurricane in a very real way the president has turned this into a conversation about Alabama and about the media yeah and the modified map you could it was the circle where the storm was headed was was just extended to include a little softies chunk of Alabama So what what how is the president explaining this what is the White House saying well he is insisting that Alabama was part of the original forecast and I went up to Stephanie Gresham's office today the press secretary she showed me yet another map that showed some winds possibly affecting Alabama but even if Alabama was predicted to get some strong winds or effect early on by the time the president was talking about it he was talking about days old information. The cust question I suppose is does this matter I mean this would not be the 1st time that the president has bent the facts to suit his purposes right there was the crowd size it is inauguration his claims of voter fraud there are a number of cases like this where President Trump says something that's not true or not accurate and then just digs in the question is you know what does it matter do we need a shared set of facts in this country and what happens if it is about something that's more matters more than a silly map right where people are trying to figure out with the should evacuate that type of thing thank you very much Tom thank you White House correspondent Tamara Keith and now to a photo that President Trump tweeted last week it came from a u.s. Spy satellite and until the moment it was posted it was highly classified N.P.R.'s Geoff Brumfiel reports on why the president's tweet was unprecedented. The photo is of a launch pad at Iran Space Center it shows the remains of a rocket The blew up on the pad last Thursday and it is so sharp you can read the lettering on the pad I called up Bruce Clinger a former CIA officer now at the Heritage Foundation the photo may be on Twitter but he doesn't want to talk about it even though I'm no longer in the intelligence community I'm still bound by the pledges that I took when I joined the intelligence community so just talking about the president's tweet makes you kind of nervous a bit. If Clinton had tweeted this he'd be in a lot of trouble certainly anyone else who revealed it would be you know sitting in Leavenworth prison serving out of prison term the president of the United States is actually the only person who can't end up in jail because he has absolute power over classification Steven Aftergood studies government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists the classification system for national security information is not based on a law it derives from the president's own status as commander in chief of the armed forces the rules are laid out in very detailed presidential orders the entire system is run by the executive branch and President Trump is the boss he therefore has the authority to decide unilaterally what will be disclosed what will be declassified and what will not pass presidents have used his power sparingly President Clinton authorized the release of some satellite images during the Balkans war in the 1990 s. In 2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell used satellite photos at his speech in the United Nations building a case for war with Iraq we also have satellite photos that indicate that banned materials have recently been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction facilities but after good thinks those photos were deliberately blurred to hide what the satellites could really do and he says there's a good reason for that the satellites are in the. 1000000000 to multi-billion dollar range they are worth more than their weight in gold the photos they produce are so good they're at the very limits of the laws of physics it's the best picture you can take from space Aftergood thinks the president's decision to tweet what appears to be an unplugged photo was a mistake in chess terms he has sacrificed a bishop for upon or less it's pretty sporty what the president did is pretty sporty Rebecca Heinrich's is with the conservative Hudson Institute and she thinks Trump knew what he was doing she says Look everyone knows we have incredible spy satellites already and this tweet sense a powerful message to Iran he is communicating that we are carefully watching and that we're using restraint and if we wanted to do more we could the problem says former CIA officer Bruce Clinger is that Iran wasn't the only one who got the tweet our adversaries Russia China North Korea Iran Syria and others will be looking at this trying to determine how good u.s. Capabilities are and Clinger worries they just might learn something Geoff Brumfiel n.p.r. News Washington. And you're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Joel Matthew from w. G.b.h. Is Morning Edition tomorrow we'll discuss the latest legal battle stemming from Iraq still last weekend's great pride parade in Boston and also hear from the woman who was quietly spent the last 12 years turning mit into an athletic powerhouse specifically I think Mit is a sleeping giant subverts of the job now but it's at the school have it been the same that story plus all the day's news only identity g.b.h. Is Morning Edition starting at $5407.00 b.h. Or the w g b h at this is $8097.00 w. G.b.h. I'm a room Rob thanks for joining us still to come a new report from the Government Accountability Office has found issues with Congress. His temporary effort to expand and fix problems with the public service loan forgiveness program plus as research into head injuries expands into women's soccer there are concerns by some of the sport's former stars about the health fallout heading the ball from heading the ball those stories and more coming up on w g b h is All Things Considered the Red Sox take on the Minnesota Twins at Fenway tonight 1st pitches at $710.00 cloudy today cloudy tomorrow with rain moving in to morrow night as hurricane Dorian moves up the coast the rain will continue through Saturday morning before lightning up the sun will be back on Sunday our programs are made possible thanks to you and David Burns American utopia coming to Boston for a limited free Broadway engagement of 1000 performances beginning Wednesday September 11th David Byrne In Boston tickets at Emerson Colonial Theatre Not com and Middlesex Savings Bank providing financial services to Massachusetts businesses in manufacturing technology health care and more Middlesex savings bank right there with businesses that help communities succeed right there with you Middlesex Bank dot com and your brother going into the weeds was loads kind of the word in Adam's from Liz potshots though a record fine for securely of central banks in violation consumers that more and more of the Boston Public Library 11000007 w. 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Found that so far 99 percent of requests for loan forgiveness have been denied N.P.R.'s Corey Turner is here in the studio Hi Corie they are 1st tell us about this program and why so many people were rejected Yeah I think we need a quick history lesson 1st Ari So Congress created this program called public service loan forgiveness back in 2007 it was a promise to student borrowers basically said if you work in government or nonprofit as a teacher or 1st responder social worker you make steady payments on your student loans then after 10 years the Education Department would forgive whatever's left here's the problem the 1st several years this program was in effect the ed apartment and loan companies they really did a terrible job of managing it and explaining it to people so borrowers were often given no advice or sometimes they were given wrong advice to the point that in recent years now we're seeing thousands of borrowers come out of the woodwork and say Wait I thought I was in track and instead they realize they don't even qualify for a loan forgiveness that was a 2007 program but now we're talking about a program from last year how does that relate exactly so what we're talking about now is an effort by Congress last year when they heard all of these frustrated borrowers saying wait you've got to help us Congress decided to create a kind of fix a limited expansion that relaxed some of these really rigid rules they set aside $700000000.00 to help pay for it and it's this expansion Ari that the g.a.o. Just found in its 1st year is denying 99 percent of requests if the whole point of the expansion was to get more of this money to more people why has it been such a failure has the question. And luckily the g.a.o. Report offers a pretty clear. Trail of breadcrumbs the simple answer here is that the vast majority of the requests that are being denied 71 percent they're being denied based on a technicality people aren't filling out the right form if 71 percent of people aren't filling out the right form my guess is the problem is not with the 71 percent of the people who well yeah I talked to a lot of borrowers who are brass tax people they have budgets for their families and they could not figure this out they were baffled one of the people I spoke with Jonathan Barnes of Chicago he told me he believed he had done everything right when he applied for this expansion but then he got a rejection letter that said this in all capital letters you know I wouldn't be considered for the permit this time because it said I hadn't applied for public student loan forgiveness it was all very confusing but at the end of the day it was another big giant stop sign that I felt was underneath a bureaucracy that was unwilling to help Ari obviously the bad news here is he's not the only one who feels this way but the good news is that some folks including Jonathan potentially may ultimately qualify for this through what more Congress will action are just filling out the right form or what well some of them by just filling out the right form frankly some are going to require more congressional action g.a.o. Made a couple of recommendations to add number one they said streamline this process obviously it's not working you need to make it simpler They also said the department has got to improve its messaging explain a borrower's how it works how you qualify and what you need to know before you go through it and honestly the department told me told the g.a.o. Look we agree with these recommendations and we're working hard a number of these efforts are already underway as N.P.R.'s Corey Turner thank you thank you with the new n.f.l. Season starting tonight concerns about head injuries and footballers expected to ramp up again and now the discussion is expanding to women's soccer after the women's World Cup researchers are preparing to study how a lifetime. Time of head impacts could affect women including having the ball N.P.R.'s Tom Goldman reports using the head to redirect a soccer ball or to score a goal that's an integral part of the game especially as players become more skilled but in an era of increased concussion awareness heading is fraught with potential risk and the science exploring that risk hasn't been inclusive we really needed to expand this research to include women Dr Robert Stern studies chronic traumatic encephalopathy that's the degenerative brain disease known as c.t.e. He and others at Boston University have focused a lot of their attention on c.t.e. As linked to head trauma in men who play tackle football but next month he'll start working with former female soccer players some well known on a study called Shine it stands for soccer head impacts and neurological effects I. Mean I'm like right there are. Only as it goes on time I want but I think former national team star Michelle Akers now 53 was the catalyst for Stern study she's concerned about her peers and wonders whether certain mental lapses are early signs of soccer induced brain problems including c.t.e. Acres and former u.s. Teammate Brandy chest pain spoke on c.b.s. About their involvement in the study Akers said she now regrets what she estimates to be at least 50 headers per game during her career I would not be having a 1000000 balls like that there is no way on earth I would do that again Robert Stern says prior research shows a relationship between the amount of heading and cognitive and even chemical changes in the brain enough so that in 2015 the u.s. Soccer Federation banned heading for kids 10 and younger So how do we had the ball we look with what. Ok youth coach Dan Pingree has led his Seattle United club team through its 1st year of heading by the time they start playing games this fall most of the girls will be 11 meaning no more band at a practice on the University of Washington campus Pingree runs a refresher drill upper body straight. Ahead. I said easy right to their forehead good don't bend over Ella bend over Ella what Pingree doesn't want to see is heads wobbling neurologist say girls can be more prone to concussion because they sometimes have weaker neck muscles that cause the head to flop and the brain to shake Pingree also trains his kids to keep their elbows out creating a protective buffer to help prevent smacking skulls when someone else is flying in the head the same ball. Shahram salaries daughter Hannah plays on the Seattle United team he says the new study isn't creating extra concern among parents he hasn't sensed the kind of concussion hysteria that scripts some parents of young boys playing football I will say that I know parents who have kids that are older teenagers and what I hear from them is more of a concern about a.c.l. Injuries and injuries more than head injuries we just don't see a whole lot of that at that maybe maybe it's just the age of the kids in 2017 research by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons found a high school soccer playing girls did have a significantly higher rate of concussions even more than boys who play football the study points to Henares as part of the problem that's where Dr Stern now is turning his attention with an open mind I'm one of the people who does the bulk of this research and I'm not really sure exactly what leads to c.t. And how it's manifested and what the risk factors are but stern stresses repetitive head impacts of any kind even ones that don't cause concussions are not good and he hopes the 20 women signed up for his soccer study will help science inch closer to understanding the risks of playing the games we love Tom Goldman n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. This is 897 w. G.b.h. Thanks for tuning in I'm Arun Rath coming up opiate addiction can happen to anything anyone and that includes doctors and nurses but unlike the general population they are often barred from using medications like methadone to break that addiction that story just ahead on the b.h. Is All Things Considered. As another school year gets into full swing in a country that's becoming more and more polarized w.g. 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News and Culver City California and to Wayne Brown as hurricane Dorian churns up the Atlantic coast with heavy winds and rain at least 4 storm related deaths have been reported 3 in Florida and want to North Carolina all involve men who are trimming trees or otherwise getting ready for the storm in the north Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina several tornadoes were spotted damaging a condo complex and mobile home community Palin is the city's public information officer there's a lot of roof damage couple of mobile homes were totaled other mobile homes in those siding and stripped off and that kind of thing the same is true with the condos but no one was injured and several of the residents went to evacuation centers Dorian is moving up the East Coast as a Category 2 hurricane the storm has already devastated the Bahamas as it stalled over the island earlier this week causing at least 20 deaths there and that number is expected to grow Michigan State University will pay a $4.00 and a half $1000000.00 fine for failing to protect gymnast from disgraced sports Dr Larry Nascar from Michigan Public Radio Kirk has this update along with the fine Michigan State also has to overhaul its federal Title 9 procedures were. Are supposed to protect students from sexual misconduct education secretary Betsy divorce says this is the largest fine the department has ever ordered for this sort of transgression she says schools must do better by their students we can and will turn the tide of the campus in just the former n.s.a. You sports Dr Larry Nascar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison after sexually abusing gymnast's and students for years the dean of the school of Osteopathic Medicine was also convicted of misconduct and the m.s. You Provost has now resigned for failing to protect students for n.p.r. News I'm Rick Pluta You're listening to n.p.r. From the w. G.b.h. Radio newsroom in Boston I'm a rock Boston there Marty Walsh is ordering a review of the city's zoning board of appeals the review comes amid a scandal involving the board in which a city official has pleaded guilty to taking a bribe from a Boston area real estate developer John Lynch is guilty plea was announced last week he has admitted to taking $50000.00 from the developer to help win a favorable vote with the zoning board of Appeal Lynch allegedly worked with a member of the zoning board to secure the vote the members identity has not been revealed while says the firm Sullivan will still be conducting the review Senator Ed Markey is to announce challengers in next year's Democratic primary will speak at the party's state convention next week Shannon Lis Riordan and Steven Pemberton have both been invited to address the convention that set to take place in Springfield a week from Saturday Marcie says he welcomes their inclusion the addition of list Riordan and Pemberton to the bill speakers comes as Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy weighs his own bid to unseat Markey. A gas leak at a market basket and rally has sent roughly a dozen people to the hospital and happen this afternoon authorities say the leak has been contained hazmat crews are responding to a strike by trash dollars in 3 South Shore communities has now been going on for a week and the towns are working to deal with all the garbage you know his workers with the company Republic Services went on strike in Marshfield Rockland and Addington last Thursday Marshalltown administrator Michael Moore Resco says the impact of the strike has been notable Well when you don't have trash pickup for a week yes it was started to build up it also started to build up at the municipal buildings in the local businesses but the d.p.w. Who's really able to see the trash contract with Republic stepped up and they get the transfer station open that So community members can drop off their own trash or public services is now using replacement workers to haul garbage in the 3 towns in a statement the company says it respects employees rights to collective bargaining and will continue to work toward a fair contract the Cape and Islands are now under a tropical storm watch as hurricane Dorian heads north Dorian is expected to weaken to a tropical storm by the time it reaches New England residents can expect high winds and rain starting Friday evening and lasting into Saturday afternoon wind gusts could reach up to 70 miles per hour on the Cape and Islands the Red Sox play the Minnesota Twins tonight 1st pitch in Fenway is at $710.00 some sun earlier today but cloudy this afternoon that will continue tomorrow as you heard some wind and wind and rain on Friday and Saturday thanks to Hurricane Dorian sunny again on Sunday for more original reporting the w. 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Selena Simmons Duffin has more here's how this played out for Dr Peter Grinspoon he got addicted to vie couldn't it med school and still had an opiate addiction 5 years into practice as a primary care physician then back in February 2005 he got in trouble in my addicted mind frame I was writing prescriptions for a nanny who had since returned back to another country and it didn't take the pharmacist gone to figure out that I was not a 1000 year old nanny from New Zealand one day during lunch he says the state police and the d.a. Showed up at his medical office I started going home glad you're here you know how can I help you in there like doc cut the crap we know you're reading that scripts he was fingerprinted the next day charged with 3 felony counts of fraud generally obtaining a controlled substance and he got referred to his state's physician health program or p.h.p. They work with state licensing boards if you follow the treatment and monitoring plan they set up for you they'll recommend to the board that you get your medical license back the ph he's basically say do whatever we say or we will give you a letter that will help you get back to work so they put a gun to your head and Grinspoon says they gave him very little choice to avoid a criminal record he needed to spend 90 days at an inpatient center in Virginia I would use in the Jewish atheist to a Christian rehab place in Virginia didn't make any sense I was just sitting there listening to people recites the Lord's Prayer on hold hands they took me cold turkey off all my medications it was completely insane he says medication assisted treatment was suboxone or methadone was off the table for him those medications are similar to opioids and work by suppressing cravings to the abused drug position health programs he said. Has effectively banned the use of these medications in the treatment plans that they set up for physicians like him why on earth would you deny physicians who are under so much stress and who have a higher access they have free refills and they'd have a higher dictionary Why would you deny them the one lifesaving treatment for this deadly disease that's killing more people in this country every year than died in the entire Vietnam War Grinspoon recovered despite what he called several awful rehabs today he's a license primary care doctor and teaches at Harvard Medical School he also wrote a book about his experience with addiction called free refills Now this was over a decade ago but Dr Sarah Wakeman also at Harvard says most physicians health programs still don't promote medication in treatment for addiction the sort of general standard of care is the sun people the absence based residential treatment programs that don't offer medication treatment she just coauthored a piece in The New England Journal of Medicine which called this quote bad medicine bad policy and discriminatory I think the underlying issue is stigma and the sort of misunderstanding of the role of medication and this idea that a non medication based approach is somehow better than someone taking a medication to control their illness so what do the institutions getting blamed here physician health programs have to say about all this Dr Christopher Bundy runs Washington State's p.h.p. And the Federation of all the state ph p.s. He says it's true that these medications aren't often used but that's not because of stigma or ideology proceeding with caution is understandable warranted he says medication may be the gold standard of treatment in the general population but there should be an asterisk when it comes to so-called safety sensitive workers not just health care providers also pilots for instance he says the concern is that these medications can affect cognition so the idea of people caring for patients while taking something like people in our family makes some people nervous we only need one bad outcome involving a physician. So since he's disorder is back to work then immediately the piece is under the microscope he says then the criticism would be how could you let that doctor work on a medication that could have played a role in that bad outcome he doesn't know of a case where that's happened Wakeman and her co-authors also argue there isn't clear evidence that these medications do impair cognition still that fear could be what's driving the reluctance here Bill Kinkel is currently navigating all of this he lives outside Philadelphia I'm a nurse but I'm also a person and sustain recovery from opioid use disorder he'll be eligible to practice nursing again next fall after 3 years of documented sobriety and he's public about being in our coverage he even has a podcast when he was addicted he said he was under a strong impression he wouldn't be able to go back to nursing if he was in a medication assisted treatment program so he went to abstinence based rehabs over and over again and over and over again as soon as the rehab ended he relapsed a lot of those I overdosed and then had my wife not found me on the floor and been able to take care of me I very well may have died and all that possibly could have been mitigated had I got it or people who are going to methadone he doesn't fault the ph p.s. Or the licensing boards for these policies even though he thinks they put his life at risk he thinks stigma against those with addiction is so ingrained in our culture there's no one institution to blame what's important is that this changes he says and health professionals have access to all possible tools and recovery Selena Simmons Duffin n.p.r. News president Trump's foray into Middle East peacemaking seems to be in doubt once again one of the kids visors drafting trumps plan for Israeli Palestinian peace is leaving the White House and there is no sign yet of when or if the plan will be released N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports Jason Greenblatt was a lawyer for the Trump organization before. He was tapped to work with Trump's son in law Gerry cushion or in drafting a peace plan for Israelis and Palestinians just a couple of months ago he was on All Things Considered saying the administration's draft was essentially finished we're lawyers our nature is to continue to tinker with it until the president asks us to put our pencils down but if he asked us to put our pencils down tonight he put our pencils down tonight an era when he's ready now Greenblatt says he's leaving the White House in the coming weeks officials say he still holding out hope that the plan will be released before he leaves there had been indications it could happen soon after Israel's elections this month but the White House will only say that this long delayed plan will be released when it is appropriate many experts see green Blatz departure as a sign that the draft won't see the light of day or even if it does won't lead to peace talks Here's David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy I noticed in his last week he doesn't use the word plan they use the word vision which I think I want to be Tom unit but I think it shows also kind of this is our reference point for the future as opposed to tomorrow at 9 am all sides are sitting around the table administration officials praise green Blatt for playing an important role in the administration's decision to recognize Israel's claims to sovereignty over the Golan Heights and to Jerusalem as Israel's capital that move angered Palestinians who have since refused to engage with the Trump White House now West Indian officials said they won't Miss Green Blatt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked him for his dedicated work President Trump is praising him as a loyal and great friend writing on Twitter that green quote dedication to Israel and to seeking peace won't be forgotten green blood is moving back to New Jersey to be with his wife and 6 children one of his aides Avi Berkowitz will step into his role and the State Department's point person on Iran Brian hook will play a larger role on the team still led by Jared questioner Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. . To make her latest album singer songwriter Joan Shelley left her home in Kentucky and traveled to Iceland she had a very specific intention to build what she describes as a haven for overstimulated brains in uncertain times the result is called like the river loves the sea Tom Moon has a review. A song is a small thing beautiful and ignore a bull in the same time being. A woman singing quietly over acoustic guitar Been there heard lots but if you pay attention to one song in that vein this year let it be the fading from Joan Shelly's breathtaking new album. Where. The banks. One again. It's an elegy tuned to the present moment hitting ominous notes of environmental dread glaciers disappearing things breaking down you can tell that Shelley is rattled but check out the way she gracefully sidesteps despair here on the train when it yeah. Baby they. Say the. Stay. Stays. Chilly songs have a sturdy classic construction of folk tunes but even when the tone is serene there's a distinctly modern restlessness lurking below the surface perspective ship. Frequently in her songs on this one she contrasts the vistas of her home sunlight on the stately mountain beautiful old trees with the buses and cars of city streets to create a wistful reverie about a lover. Has been. Purged in the. Green. Least day. A. This is June Shelly's 5th album each of them contains sparkling individual songs but this is the 1st one that feels fully rooted in a place and also fully knit together thematic like in these songs the wisdom and the sweet air of open spaces becomes an abiding presence a key character as she laments worlds that have disappeared or are soon to join Shelley awakens listeners to something that's easily missed the beauty in all the fan. The latest from John Shelley is called like the river it loves the sea Our reviewer is Tom. Tom. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in California the state legislature is poised to vote on a proposed law that would give new benefits to hundreds of thousands of contract workers it would do so by reclassifying them as employees there's a lot at stake for companies and for a growing number of contract workers as N.P.R.'s Yuki Noguchi reports for most of the last 4 and a half years later another DHEA says he's made a decent living working 40 to 50 hours a week driving for and lift interacting with but Diaz has soured He says both companies cut his share of payments the Los Angeles father of 4 estimates his take home amounts to only $9.00 an hour after paying maintenance and insurance to cut costs Diaz traded in his gas powered Hyundai Elantra for a key hybrid getting less money so I got a good efficient more to the point Diaz says he's tired of working as a contractor he misses the employee health and paid leave benefits he used to receive when he worked as a valet we don't get any how this you know when we are trying to get of a case from the occasions it we get seek nobody's going to pay for our doctors if it passes the proposal would narrow the definition of independent contractor that means many more people would be considered employees a shift that triggers a host of other changes companies would have to pay for Social Security for example and workers' compensation and unemployment insurance. Ns large employers would also have to pay for health insurance contractors make up a fast growing part of the workforce and any company in the state using them think Amazon or Fed Ex could be affected it could also up and the business models of companies like insta car Task Rabbit that have made good work readily available in recent years and the impact of the new law would reverberate beyond California Monique no been each She is a lawyer who represents businesses everyone is looking to California right now and they're all following it with bated breath because they recognize that likely whatever happens in California is going to sweep across the country last year the state Supreme Court extended wage protections to more workers this proposal would expand on that landmark ruling noble Nicci warns the measure would force companies to put workers on shifts taking away flexibility you've got to give them advance notice of their schedule in certain municipalities I mean that has to be done weeks before Adrian Durbin a spokesman for lift says it would hurt drivers we would need far fewer drivers than we currently have because they'd be scheduled we would know exactly how many drivers would be working lift and other companies lobbied for alternatives that would give workers some additional benefits without making them full fledged employees those prospects dimmed after California Governor Gavin Newsom this week publicly endorsed the measure but the companies haven't given up the fight super lift Andora dash pledge to spend $30000000.00 each on a ballot initiative that would give them exemptions Lorena Gonzales the San Diego lawmaker who sponsored the bill doesn't think good companies should be exempt what they'd like is to say basically if you're hired through an app that there's something different by that and maybe some of the law should apply but a lot of the law shouldn't and I think that's ridiculous it's dangerous to say if you're hired through an app you're somehow different because pretty soon we'll all be hired for now she says for too long some companies skirted their financial and legal responsibilities by. Misclassifying there workers as independent contractors those who haven't been doing that she says support her proposal I think a company that's doing the right thing is like finally I'm not going to be undercut by a company that cheats their workers California driver léonard o.d.s. Says he's spending a lot of hopes on the proposals passage he hopes it will lead to unionization better pay and working conditions if it passes the law will take effect in January next year Yuki Noguchi n.p.r. News we often hear about gentrifying neighborhoods it's less common to hear of an entire city gentrifying all at once that's what's happening in Inglewood California a city in southwest Los Angeles County and a Scott of member station k.c. R.w. Reports if you've never been to Englewood there's a good chance you've heard of it in the eighty's and ninety's it was known for high crime and gang violence that was never the full picture but these days the city's name is more synonymous with real estate development Inglewood gentrification is even a storyline on the h.b.o. Comedy in secure several large projects are under construction including a $1000000000.00 n.f.l. Stadium scheduled to open next summer. But you can't see that yet on Market Street a commercial strip lined with mom and pop shops selling clothes beauty supplies school uniforms and some empty storefronts I'm excited about businesses coming back to the city Monique Washington is standing outside a coffee shop but it's changing very rapidly out pricing a lot of people where do they go on top of all the new development Inglewood sits about 5 miles in from l.a. Silicon Beach home to tens of thousands of tech jobs real estate investors have bought up apartment buildings here in recent years and in many cases raised brands this time last year was pay 1550 a retired teacher who introduced herself as Dorcas Green Day was one of dozens who spoke out in Inglewood City Council meeting in June and for May in Juneau it's the . To pay 2000 no one in my building can afford that stories like this led city officials to pass in the woods 1st ever rent control measure one of the activists who pushed for the ordinance Tiffany Wallace says new investment threatens many longtime residents it's a city that's majority black and brown people on this meeting income is below the median income of Los Angeles and we don't want to see displacement happen just because there's development that's in the community adding to the squeeze Inglewood is one of few largely African-American communities left in the region in the past 20 years l.a. County's black population has dropped from about 10 percent to 9 percent so it's like the city's being beautified but it's not being beautified for us I just purchased a 2090 Suzuki Hi Bruce a Ferrari of the bikes Patrick Kutch Ansen is showing off his new motorcycle outside his condo on a tree lined street he's a long time resident happy about the changes he and his wife bought their condo out of foreclosure for $80000.00 mortgages $800.00 a month. That's unusual 2 years ago the median home price in Englewood was about $435000.00 according to the website Zillow now it's around 520000 Hutchinson is counting on it going even higher my plan is to go ahead and stay here for a couple of years and then we're going to buy a house in Nevada. Condo out. Yes that's my retirement plan Inglewood can benefit from new investment and protect low income renters argues Mayor James Butts He points to policies like a local hiring requirement to build the new n.f.l. Stadium there are more people working with today than any time last 40 years when you look around the country and other cities do you see any that are good model of striking that balance there is no city in the country that. Says transition from a brand of unemployment poverty high cry to where Englewood has transition in just 4 years so there is no template but it's wants his city to be the model for n.p.r. News I manage Scott in Los Angeles. Thanks for listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. 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