So its important to continue working on recovery. What i do to help people that are still in the program i support the newcomers and show how ive become sober, then explain what ive gone through. Im always inspired and proud to see when that happens. You know, comparing them to when they first came in, ill, they come in thin, and now, you know, they leave strong and full of hope. And their life is full of color. It works. It really works, but its not because just the staff or the place, it works because the person comes here and really tries hard, you know, to make it through. And when that happens, thats the best. We talked a little bit about families. Barbara, what is the proper role of a Family Member when dealing with a disability issue of an individual with a Substance Use or a Mental Illness . Well, i think its important for the families to be involved and to help the provider, the care providers, understand the background of the family and the background of the individual. Howwh
David. Are we starting to see the job coming back . Yes, it is starting to come can back, but we have one of the lowest participation rates in 30 year years. We have structural high unemployment which is a signal of a problem Going Forward which will not be fixed with low interest rates. What the administrations and the fed policys have done is to greatly benefitted the 1 . They have made the rich significantly richer. They have destroyed the middleclass. Wealth is still being created. Look at twitter and facebook and there is being creative, but it is not coming with jobs across the country. And with the food inflation starting to the ramp up, and gas prices being high and going into the summer, the consumer is being left out of this, and to them, it is not feeling like a rall rally. Right. David, do you think that the economy is Strong Enough to keep the market going . Name some positive things about the economy. Well, there are a lot of positive things in that last year in january t
Taxpayer dollars to fix a problem that he created. The president assured the American People the border was secure, but clearly, it is not. Chairman rogers and the members of our working group are led by kay ranger are reviewing the administrations request. I can tell you this, though, were not giving the president a blank check. Lou and as the president strikes out with that is up elemental legislation in the house, Senate Democratic leadership telling the president no on rewriting deportation policy as well. Long time obama ally, senator dick durbin of illinois rejected the president s call to write a 2008 law on child trafficking. Changing the law would allow deportations of those children to occur faster. Durbin told obama, quote, i would u. S. Officials to ensure there are social infrastructures that can take care of them in their home countries first. Senator durbin, obviously, wanting to run their countries as well as his own. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman pat leahy put it
Its a continuous process through your whole lifespan, so its important to continue working on recovery. What i do to help people that are still in the program i support the newcomers and show how ive become sober, then explain what ive gone through. Im always inspired and proud to see when that happens. You know, comparing them to when they first came in, ill, they come in thin, and now, you know, they leave strong and full of hope. And their life is full of color. It works. It really works, but its not because just the staff or the place, it works because the person comes here and really tries hard, you know, to make it through. And when that happens, thats the best. We talked a little bit about families. Barbara, what is the proper role of a Family Member when dealing with a disability issue of an individual with a Substance Use or a Mental Illness . Well, i think its important for the families to be involved and to help the provider, the care providers, understand the background of
I fit in this thing called family. And i started using drugs. I ended up homeless. I did that on and off for about 3 years. I finally ended up at my local va, where i went into their Substance Abuse program. I abused, anything that was amphetamine like cocaine, methamphetamines. You name it, i pretty much did itanything to get rid of kinda what i was feeling. I was also a selfmutilator. It allowed me to feel some kind of emotion, some kind of pain, i guess, it was the inward pain that i couldnt express i was able to do outwardly. And i eventually ended up in a Substance Abuse program. I then found out that i had chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. I ended up in the program for that and 5 weeks into my program, i left the program and i started using again. I ended up getting involved in solicitation. I was homeless again, living out of my car. And how did you come out of that . It, it was amazing actually, i, right after that period of time, it was only about 3 months. And i ended up