Have Narcan with you, have fentanyl test strips, ways to identify counterfeit anything. That will save a life. — Dr. Melissa Floyd-Pickard, licensed clinical social worker, lead researcher for GCSTOP, and Social Work Professor
As a Department of Social Work and Gerontology Program, we are responsible for actively engaging in the values of our profession, including valuing the dignity and worth of people and fighting for social justice. Tyre is not only someone who was murdered by police but also a person who loved his family, whose mother remembers how much he enjoyed skateboarding and sunsets. We share in the grief of his loss.
“While uninterrupted attachment to the labor force is a good thing, higher levels of job loss in the US may have benefited economic efficiency as workers had more incentive to consider better job opportunities whereas continuously receiving a paycheck while furloughed may have discouraged seeking more productive job matches.”
Social Work Associate Professor Dr. Mathieu Despard was one of 11 people associated with a university or policy institute who signed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting the appeal of President Joe Biden’s Administration to lift an injunction issued by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The more frequently we interact with people, the closer we feel to them. People on the wrong side of the digital divide–those who don’t have access to electronic communication or don’t know how to use it–are more deprived. Dr. Rebecca Adams, Professor and Gerontology Undergraduate Coordinator
This (income-driven repayment) system ensures that borrowers pay a fair share of their earnings with little friction and ample grace with respect to changes in income. It’s what IDR ought to look like in the U.S., which is theoretically possible, given that two major federal agencies–the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)… Continue reading…
Rebecca Adams is a professor in the Department of Social Work, and also the Undergraduate Gerontology Program Coordinator. My friendship with Rosemary Blieszner, the subject of one of Beck’s wonderful interviews, illustrates the invisible hand of social structure really well.
NC Attorney General Josh Stein was at the Guilford County Detention Center to discuss the treatment program at the facility.
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) – Drug overdose deaths are on the rise in Guilford County. Overdose deaths have increased more than 100% in the county in the last five years, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
‘Their lives are worth just as much as anybody else’s’; overdoses soar in Piedmont Triad GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s been called an epidemic within the pandemic. There were more than 1,300 drug overdoses in Guilford County in 2021, according to new data from Guilford County Emergency Services. A… Continue reading…
