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At first, Leslie Carpenter thought her son Patrick was on drugs. She was at home in Iowa City with her husband and about to go to bed when the phone rang. It was Patrick. “Mom, I died. I’ve been reborn,” the 19-year-old told her. “I’m God. We need to go, and I need you to take me to see Obama and Oprah because I need to save the world.”
No set criteria exist yet to gauge whether or not a redesign of how Iowa delivers mental health treatment, which included the controversial closing of two mental health institutes June 30, will be as beneficial to Iowans as hoped, Gov. Terry Branstad said in an IowaWatch interview.
An IowaWatch documentary: “Breaking the Cycle: Meth Addiction in the Heartland” examines the impact methamphetamine has on Iowa children raised in a home with a parent addicted to the drug. Watch it here.
Cynthia Houston didn’t panic when she lost her job at the Mount Pleasant School District in 2008. She looked for another job and paid the extra money to keep insurance through COBRA. She found work but couldn’t afford insurance there. That was when she had a breakdown. Cynthia Houston poses at the Community Health Center in Columbus Junction.
Job interview can seem foreign, assistance drops in adulthood for those intellectually capable of working.