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Mental Health Care

Eve Abrams
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One enduring legacy of Hurricane Katrina and the storm's aftermath is stress.  Stress about  home, family, money, environment, and on and on.  But stress doesn’t stay stress; it has a tendency to become other things.  Eve Abrams investigates how dealing with hard situations, in a New Orleans helping fewer mental-health patients, has affected the health, safety, and moral compass/future of our city.

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Eve Abrams first fell in love with stories listening to her grandmother tell them; it’s been an addiction ever since.

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