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Being a civil litigation lawyer is stressful in the best of times but during the pandemic, that stress became overwhelming for Russell, a young attorney in Minnesota. When the lockdown began, Russell was already facing a crushing workload and multiple deadlines. By mid-March, he was also isolated, working from home without the support of colleagues or the structure of an office.There was nothing to help me: how the pandemic has worsened opioid addictionRead moreRussell, who did not use his real name and spoke on condition of anonymity, had been sober for nearly four years after battling a heroin addiction, but when the lockdown began he felt the need for something to take the edge off . He started using kratom, an herbal extract made from the leaves of an evergreen tree that grows in south-east Asia. Kratom, which is legal, has an opioid-like effect on the brain, producing pleasure and sedation; in small amounts, it acts like a stimulant. Kratom was helpful for a few days, and then it wasnt. I just thought, why am I wasting my time with this he recalls. So Russell bought some heroin and overdosed in his home office. His girlfriend found him. The bottom line is, I have a disease that justifies whatever it needs and Covid gave me that justification, he says.Witne stanley tumbler ss the collision of two epidemics. The new one, Covid-19, with its own deadly conse stanley mugs quences, is making the epidemic that a stanley cup lready existed 鈥?the drug epidemic 鈥?even worse. And many of its victims include those we of Pbex UK house sales to first-time buyers reach highest for 19 years
Even the fiercest critic of Dame Lowell Goddard must admit shes got a point. Earlier this week, Goddard revealed why she resigned last month as chair of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. She sent a 10-page critique of the setup of the inquiry to the home affairs select committee, saying it was too big, took in too many institutions church, councils, schools, Westminster, Medomsley detention centre 鈥?to name but a few of its 13 strands , stanley cup was too complex, went back too far 60 years , would take too long possibly 10 years , and was underfunded.Hundreds of alleged abuse victims threaten to boycott Jay inquiryRead moreMany commentators have been too busy sniping at the New Zealand judges annual financial package of 拢500,000, her apparent failure to grasp key legal issues, the amount of time she has spent overseas in the past year, and the lack of progress, to acknowledge the one crucial fact: Goddard is right.It was to widespread approval that Theresa May, then home secretary, announced the launch of the publ stanley italia ic inquiry in 2014. But what a m stanley canada ess it has been. Its remit was to investigate whether public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales. In other words, pretty much all child sex abuse that has or might have occurred over the past 60 years. It was a remit so broad as to make success impossible.In her memo this week Goddard wrote: I have recommended in my report to
