Human Trafficking and Social Disparities Blog
The Human Trafficking and Social Disparities Blog provides news, insight, and other information on social issues that impact the health, safety, and freedoms of individuals and demographic groups, both in the United States and across the world.
Mass Shootings 2019 in the United States
Mass Shootings 2019 in the United States. Today December 1, 2019, Jersey City NJ Kosher Supermarket Shootout. The ordeal was described as a warzone with hundreds of gunshots exchanged for hours. Assailants armed with long guns opened fire killing a Police Officer and...
War on Drugs Leads to Forced Enema
War On Drugs Leads to Forced Enema. This is no sick joke and really happened to this poor bloke in City of Deming located in Hildago County, New Mexico. Police stopped David Eckert, age 54 and suspected him of carrying drugs inside his rectum. Police handcuffed,...
Shouldn’t we have empathy for Addicts
Shouldn't we have empathy for Addicts? I should have empathy for them but sometimes I can't find it in me. I have known enough of them in family, friends and patients to say the hell with them. But then on the other hand they are people too. Many addicts are cunning,...
Consensual Prostitution is Not Sex Trafficking
Consensual Prostitution is Not Sex Trafficking. Sex work is consensual. Human Trafficking is NOT consensual. Sex Trafficking is covert and is NOT the same as voluntarily engaged in prostitution. We cannot defeat Sex Trafficking at its core by implementing police sting...
Psychiatric Patients Assaulting Nurses
Psychiatric Patients Assaulting Nurses. I will get right to the point, if you are Nurse employed at a facility that is eliminating physically restraining dangerous patients, then get your health and life insurance paid. These ludicrous decisions are made by the...
The Hard Is What Makes It Great
The Hard Is What Makes It Great. I will get right to it, unless there is some health reason preventing intimacy, there is no point whatsoever that two people in a relationship should not work hard at their marriage. Intimacy, caring, kindness, respect and mutual love...
Federal Justice System Incompetence
Federal Justice System Incompetence. Husband and wife both found dead, buried on Padre Island Beach, Corpus Christi area of the State of Texas. James and Michelle Butler, went missing in October 2019. Adam Curtis Williams, age 33, arrested on 11/06/2019 in the State...
Sexual Predation of Amish and Mennonites
Sexual Predation of Amish and Mennonites. An old world religious culture is a sinister life of secrecy for many of its women members. In this male dominated community where women and girls are treated as property. It is the perfect breeding ground for sex abuse and...
Opioid Subculture is Sustainable
Opioid Subculture is Sustainable. Every 11 minutes someone is dying from an opioid overdose but none of that deters addicts from using. People have difficulty accepting that the Opioid addiction is a chronic relapsing disease. Those that are actively using opioids...
Bumper Crop of Opioid Overdoses
Bumper Crop of Opioid Overdoses. Across the United States for opioid addicts there is a bumper crop of overdoses. An opioid overdose occurs every 11 minutes, which translates into 5 an hour, 120 a day, 840 a week, 3,600 a month and 43,200 a year. These...
Every 11 Minutes Another Overdose Death
Every 11 Minutes Another Overdose Death. How many people have to die from opioid overdoses, before there is political and social policy change? Every eleven minutes a new person has overdosed and died, which translates into over 5 an hour, 130 a day, 3,927 a month,...
She Shouldn’t Have To Suck Dick
She Shouldn't Have To Suck Dick. Many women who are addicted to opioids, mainly Heroin, support their addiction performing sex for money. The title is crude, but it gets the point across that some addicts sell their bodies to support addiction. Prostitution is said to...
Safe Injection Sites Save Lives
Safe Injection Sites Save Lives. Drugs are bought and sold on the street. Addicts find a spot to inject and many overdose. Drug paraphernalia is left on the streets, in playgrounds and the parks. Not surprisingly community leaders, politicians, law enforcement,...
Casual Dating or Hookup
Casual Dating or Hookup. Doublelist.com is one of thousand online sites with people alluring to hookup casually with one another. Other sites like Tinder, Adult Friend Finder, e Harmony or Match.com There are casual dating and hookup advertisements are for nearly...
Women Auctioning Off Their Virginity
Women Auctioning Off Their Virginity. Young women auctioning off their virginity online to the highest bidder, might be for some very difficult to fathom and for others who support it, they believe that woman should reserve the right to decide for themselves. It...
NLP Hypnosis Rape
NLP Hypnosis Rape. Ohio Divorce Attorney Michael W. Fine used Neuro Linguistical Programing NLP to maliciously hypnotize his female clients and sexually assault them. Divorce is an emotional and stressful event. When people are seeking divorce representation, they...
People who publicly masturbate
People who publicly masturbate. What is up with men who masturbate in public? Consider this, my wife and I are driving in my truck on a three lane interstate. We are in the far left lane and pass a vehicle in the middle one. My wife blurts out; hey that guy is...
Bullied for dating a Trans Woman
Bullied for dating a Trans Woman. There is nothing wrong a guy wanting to date a transgender woman. A guy certainly should not be bullied, ridiculed and tormented for wanting to be with person he cares about. If there is a good emotional, cognitive and or physical...
Legalizing and Managing Opioid Addiction
Legalizing and Managing Opioid Addiction. Fentanyl is an ingredient that drug dealers add to Cocaine or Heroin to make the drugs more potent and it is the major contributor to lethal overdoses. Drug dealers can reduce their costs by adding Fentanyl as an ingredient....
Investors: IRS Whistleblower Claims
Investors: IRS Whistleblower Claims. In Southern portion of the State of New Jersey, there are 80 suspected Illicit Massage Businesses (IMBs). In the entire State of New Jersey there are over 400 IMBs. Throughout the United States, there are 9,000 IMBs dispersed...
Dark Side of Adult Webcam Modeling
Dark Side of Adult Webcam Modeling. You cannot be Anti-Trafficking and Pro Porn because the one fuels the other. Online pornography is roughly a $97 Billion dollar industry. Adult Webcam Modeling like online pornography has developed from a widely accepted social...
AI Helps Fight Human Trafficking
AI Helps Fight Human Trafficking. AI has tools to help stop human trafficking, which includes selling sex online including children. AI is also referred as ML (machine learning). For detecting human trafficking AI is scalable, which means it can change in size, and...
Artificial Intelligence Coming to Healthcare
AI is shaped from the academic disciplines to include; computer software & programming, linguistics; understanding language e.g. Amazon's Alexa, high level computational mathematics, neuroscience; for deep learning of the human brain and nervous system, philosophy; probably so it can recite Socrates and Plato, and psychology; to outwit us.
Retired FBI Special Agent Still Fighting Trafficking
Retired FBI Special Agent Still Fighting Trafficking. The Human Trafficking epidemic is occurring in the United States and worldwide. It is the second most profitable criminal enterprise after illegal drugs. Greg Bristol is a retired FBI Special Agent who specialized...
Drug waivers to join the military
Drug waivers to join the military. Offering men and women who use drugs a second chance to join the military is a valuable alternative to turn their life around. Its a fact that changing one's environment for the better greatly diminishes drug relapse. The person is...
Mindfulness in Nursing to Decrease Burnout
Mindfulness in Nursing to Decrease Burnout. In professional nursing, the demands are constant as you work very hard to deliver optimum patient care. After a grueling shift at the hospital, clinic, doctors office, nursing home or ambulatory surgery center, the Nurse is...
A Heroin Addict’s Daily Routine
A Heroin Addict's Daily Routine. Most people have no unearthly idea the amount of discipline it takes to be a Heroin addict. Many of us might think that an active using Heroin Addict is lazy but they are certainly not! I have worked with enough heroin addicts to...
Trauma Informed Care For Addicts
Trauma Informed Care For Addicts. I have worked with enough drug addicts to know that Trauma Informed Care is highly necessary to incorporate into helping the person get into recovery and remain there. If 59% of all adults have experienced at least one Adverse...
Publicly Traded Addiction Treatment
Registered Nurses Working To End The Cycle of Hate
Sex Trafficking Victim Identification Training
Sex Trafficking Victim Identification Training. RN's, Healthcare Professionals & Security Officers working in the Emergency Departments, Outpatient Clinics, Labor & Delivery and Postpartum are very likely to see a patient who is a Sex Trafficking Victim. The...
Sex Trafficking Convictions Across Our Nation
Sex Trafficking Convictions Across Our Nation. When it comes down to how the battle against the practice of sex trafficking, and all human trafficking, will be won, by one conviction at a time. These three recent convictions for sex trafficking demonstrate that, even...
OSHA: Violence in the Healthcare Workplace
OSHA: Violence in the Healthcare Workplace. In an interesting posting, the National Law Review discusses some OSHA eye opening statistics on violence in the health care workplace recently released by OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It's clear...
Hotel Motel Sex Trafficking
Hotel Motel Sex Trafficking. Hospitality owners are turning a blind eye to sex trafficking taking place on their premises. Some are even in cahoots with the traffickers by warning them of presence of the police. These are not just the seedy motels but rather are the...
Johnson and Johnson Increased Opioid Addiction
Johnson and Johnson Increased Opioid Addiction. State of Oklahoma Cleveland County Judge slammed the drug company Johnson & Johnson with a $572 million court for increasing the opioid epidemic through its greedy opioid drug sales. Johnson & Johnson has become...
Opioid Summaries by State
Opioid Summaries by State. The National Institute of Drug Abuse has developed a very interesting chart showing the frequency of opioid-Involved overdose deaths. The chart doesn't lead to any direct conclusions, but it certainly alerts to the frequency of opioid...
Human Trafficking Victims Hesitant to Contact Police
Human Trafficking Victims Hesitant to Contact Police. Police still arrest Child Prostitutes for Prostitution. They see a prostitute as a working girl supporting a drug habit selling sex. It is provocative and strange but factual unless the Police have had the right...
Avoiding Nursing Burnout
Finding ways to minimize nursing burnout helps both care provider and patient. But avoiding nursing burnout includes both an understanding of the potential causes of the problem, and and a consideration of what can be done to minimize it on both on an individual and...
News Affects The Opioid Epidemic
News Affects The Opioid Epidemic. Like many, maybe even most things, the public continues to get a large percentage of the information they receive on a trending subject from the news media. Leaving out personal social media interactions, that number even increases...
Human Trafficking Conviction in Philadelphia
Human Trafficking Conviction in Philadelphia. News of the first adult human trafficking conviction in Philadelphia history points out the stark reality of how much more needs to be done to even begin to address this still often hidden social dilemma. The PhillyVoice...
Sex Worker by Choice
Sex Worker by Choice. There is big difference between a Sex Worker who is a consenting adult and is voluntarily to choosing to work in that occupation as compared to those who are Sex Trafficked. Kaytlin Bailey, now a comedian, was a voluntary sex worker. She was not...
Nurse Assault and Violence At Work
Nurse Assault and Violence At Work. Violence against Nurses at work is growing epidemic in the United States than in many other places across the globe. Nurses working in healthcare caring for patients must be safe. Nurses have been assaulted by both patients and...
Hepatitis A Outbreak in Heroin Users
Hepatitis A Outbreak in Heroin Users. “You’re turning yellow.” Using of contaminated needles and other drug paraphernalia increase risk of Hepatitis A. Hepatitis A infections is the newest negative outcome of the opioid epidemic is emerging . The population is at...
The complexity of human trafficking legislation
The complexity of human trafficking legislation is a real impediment to making a quantifiable difference in reducing human trafficking activity "on the ground." It may well be a cliche at this point to note that "the road to hell" is paved with good intentions, but...
Tenancingo Mexico the Sex Trafficking Exporter
Tenancingo Mexico the Sex Trafficking Exporter. Mexico is the exporter of delicious tequilas, drugs, and sex trafficking. The City of Tenancingo located about 70 miles from Mexico City is country's unofficial sex trafficking capital. Sex trafficking as an occupation...
Addressing disparities in healthcare
Addressing disparities in healthcare. All people should have access to good healthcare. Addressing disparities in healthcare requires going beyond the simple provision of medical services towards understanding how societal, cultural and economic forces affect...
Prescription painkillers and the opioid crisis
Prescription painkillers and the opioid crisis. Trying to get a clear understanding of the relationship between Prescription Painkillers and the Opioid Crisis has, for a long time, been a difficult journey in which consensus has been a circuitous, moving target....
Human trafficking information: 11 facts you should know
Human trafficking information: 11 facts you should know. Human trafficking information that is accurate and informative is one of the most powerful tools available for fighting what has for too long been a shadowy and poorly understood phenomenon. Dosomething.org, an...
Social disparities in healthcare
Social disparities in healthcare. The concept of social disparities in healthcare can sometimes be difficult to apply to a specific healthcare service or sector. The healthypeople.gov site, created by the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,...
Overview of the Opioid Crisis
Overview of the Opioid Crisis. The problems of opioid addiction, from both illicit drugs like heroin and prescription medications such as oxycodone has been with us for a very long time, and sadly, will remain a huge, costly, and ultimately deadly issue for the...
Human Trafficking Is Entrenched in American History
Human Trafficking Is Entrenched in American History. The American Colonists were involved in the kidnapping of African men, women and children from the Continent of Africa. These victims were forced under chattel into slavery, beaten, raped, forced to breed with other...
Nurses Assaulted More then The Police
Nurses Assaulted More then The Police. Nurses on the job are facing down real physical danger as well as emotional, psychological and verbal abuse while delivering patient care. Who wants to come to work to deliver patient care only to fear for their safety? That kind...
Criminal intent and the opioid crisis
Criminal intent and the opioid crisis. It's not always the illegal drug traffickers and dealers who are the criminals in these cases. Sometimes it is the upstanding members of our community, like the pharmaceutical companies and distributors, physicians and the...
Information on human trafficking: 20 important facts you should know.
Information on human trafficking in the United States is always welcome, but there is often a lot of repetition in what information is made available. When you're asking how to prevent human trafficking in the United States, that's not a million dollar question, it's...
The difference between health disparities and health inequities
The difference between health disparities and health inequities. The difference between health disparities and health inequities is an important one, especially for those involved in the delivery of health care to patient populations of different ethnic or social...
Public Parks Where Anything Goes
Public Parks Where Anything Goes. Nothing irritates me more then to see multiple vehicles parked with heads bobbing up an down where I bring my children to play. It was blazing hot, but my daughter wanted to go fishing the other day at the river, which runs close by...
News Reports That Drug overdose deaths are decreasing
News reports that Drug overdose deaths are decreasing. Is that proof that the situation is actually getting better? The problem of drug addiction, and overdoses are complex social disparities occurring in America. The news is reporting that less people are being...
How to prevent human trafficking – A 2 Minute Read, 15 Important Links
No matter how committed to the fight, it's often difficult to feel knowledgeable about how to prevent human trafficking in a productive way. While there are a multitude of information resources from governmental agencies, non-governmental agencies, and even the United...
Social justice in health disparities
Social justice in health disparities. The academic view of Social justice in health disparities is a topic of growing prominence. The President and CEO Darrell Kirch, MD for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), offers some interesting insights on the...
Chronic Pain Patients Are Becoming Orphans
Chronic Pain Patients Are Becoming Orphans. Under the prevailing conditions of opioid regulation, chronic pain patients who are legitimately prescribed medication are finding that doctors are apprehensive write prescriptions. Its the rotten ones who over prescribed...
Human Trafficking Africa Versus United States
Human Trafficking Africa Versus United States. The specifics of human trafficking facts listed for Africa in this interesting post from Borgen Magazine point out both the similarities and differences in the problem of human trafficking across the globe, and point out...
Reducing health disparities in black-white infant mortality
Reducing health disparities in black-white infant mortality is a difficult, but achievable goal. Macomb County, MI has made doing just that a priority in addressing social disparities in health care delivery in the county, as reported by macombdaily.com: Macomb County...
The complexity of human trafficking legislation
Human Trafficking is an issue with many facets, and it's not an easy problem to address in an comprehensive fashion. The result of the recent passage of a new law meant to make an impact on the issues in the U.K. has resulted in serious issues in the developing world....
Where Children Live Determines The Threat Level
Where Children Live Determines The Threat Level. Child safety education is contingent on where they live and what are the most immediate threats. In the United States, the drug abuse is a threat. In the region of Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast region, the risk to children...
Can the response for human trafficking victims in health care really be improved?
Sometimes, the fight to assist human trafficking victims can seem hopeless. But those dedicated to doing something about it in the health care environment, through which a very large percentage of human trafficking victims eventually move through, are not about to...
Mexico Cut NGO Anti Trafficking Funding
Mexico Cut NGO Anti Trafficking Funding. This is an absurd policy shift on the part of a country, whose is host to the mecca of human slavery! The City of Tenancingo, is ground zero for sex trafficking. The entire City of Tenancingo' s commerce is driven around...
Racism as a social problem in health care
Racism as a social problem in health care is not always obvious. Sometimes the impact of racism be diffuse, but still a tangible factor in poor health. Bustle.com has an interesting article on how racism can contribute to chronic illness. It's worth a read: We know...
Dealing with Violence Against Nurses
Nursing is a rewarding and noble career because we try make a positive impact on peoples lives. All Nurses who are employed in hospitals, clinics or wherever should enjoy the same protections that everyone else expects with regards to feeling safe at work....
Addicts Receiving Treatment Need To Be Accountable
Addicts Receiving Treatment Need To Be Accountable. Most drug addicts, except for the few are unemployed, uninsured and on Medicaid. Due to addicts not staying compliant and in recovery there is a lot discussion as to what treatment is the most effective. States...
U.S. human trafficking prosecutions falling short
U.S. human trafficking prosecutions falling short. U.S. human trafficking prosecutions falling short. In the fight against human trafficking, it may come as a surprise that the U.S. is falling short in prosecutions. That is, however the conclusion of the annual TIP...
Human Trafficking on the Southern United States Border
Human Trafficking on the Southern United States Border. Women and children who are being bought and sold for sex in Mexico are hidden from the overt obvious signs of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking involves force, fraud, and coercion. A child sex trafficking victim...
FOSTA SESTA and Sex Trafficking
Human Trafficking education, including Sex Trafficking education, is our business so we are well informed. But I can say with great conviction that the average citizen has little or clue about what is going on with this horrific crime! Most people don't think about...
Beyond Drug Rehab: Why Do Clients Fail?
The questions that I have about opiate addiction & recovery via drug rehab are: What is the percentage of recovering opiate addicts who stay clean & sober? What is the percentage of opiate addicts who were addicted to prescription pain medication who stay...
Human Organ Trafficking And Organized Crime
Human Organ Trafficking And Organized Crime. The Transplantation of Organs can be correlated to the most basic economic principle—supply and demand. Historically, demand for organs has always been higher than the supply. Allocating extremely scarce organs for...
Opioid Addicts Life Is Hard
Opioid Addicts Life Is Hard. I have met a bunch of opioid addicts who were patients mostly hooked up on dope (Heroin). They have been through drug treatment for inpatient, outpatient, methadone clinic, prescribed Subutex, suboxone and some had the vivitrol...
Combatting Child Sex Trafficking With Tenacity
Combatting Child Sex Trafficking With Tenacity. Actually the title should be Combatting Child Sex Trafficking With the Same Tenacity As Combatting Ebola Virus Outbreak in the United States. If Americans paid as much attention to Child Sex Trafficking as they do to...
Optimum Care For Psychiatric Patients
Optimum Care For Psychiatric Patients. I worked at a hospital as the Charge Nurse on a psychiatric Crisis Unit, which was attached to the Emergency Department. The purpose of the Crisis unit was the treat patients who were experiencing either acute or chronic...
Internet Fun Games Information and SEX
Internet Fun Games Information and SEX. There is plenty of good stuff on the internet but I want to address the other stuff. I wanted talk a little about the deplorable stuff on the Internet that you and I can freely access. I am not even to going to discuss the dark...
Sex Trafficking Girls in the United States
Sex Trafficking Girls in the United States. The United Nations has warned that Human Trafficking of Girls in the United States is on the rise. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/human-trafficking-girls-un-report-sexual-exploitation-primary-motivation/ As an expert in Human...
Online Sex Worker Versus Sex Trafficking
Online Sex Worker Versus Sex Trafficking. In April 2018 President Trump signed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which was combined with the Senate's Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. Following the signage of the bills, Sex Workers are angry. I just...