Impact of childhood trauma reaches rural Wisconsin [projects.jsonline.com]

Alicia Doktor 12/1/174:00 AM

MONTELLO – Jodi Williams has just returned from the Marquette County jail, where she met an unemployed 27-year-old man who had been busted after jumping bail on charges of battery, property damage and disorderly conduct.

He and his girlfriend used heroin until two years ago when their child was born. Instead of cleaning up, he switched to alcohol, which angered his girlfriend, who left with their child. Now, he’s dangerously depressed, locked up and dealing with his first sustained sobriety since he was 13.

“These people are in constant survival mode,” Williams says of the distressed couple and so many others like them in the vast impoverished regions of the nation’s rural heartland. Williams is one of Marquette County’s few mental health and substance abuse case workers.

[For more on this story by John Schmid and Andrew Mollica, go to https://projects.jsonline.com/...rural-wisconsin.html]

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