Firefighters at Risk: The Negative Effects of Stress and Trauma on the Human Spirit
by Peggy Sweeney The Sweeney Alliance This video outlines some of the causes, signs and symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD, when gone untreated, may lead to suicide. In 2000, I wrote a research paper on the effects of traumatic stress and grief on firefighters. As a... Read More.
How an FBI agent who arrested drug addicts became one himself
Matthew Lowry was out of pills and getting desperate. The doctor who prescribed pain medication to ease his chronic and painful inflammation of the intestines had disappeared. He went to clinics, but his wife had begun questioning the bills. He was shaking, sweating, tired. It had been four years... Read More.