Interview with Carol Taylor-Shim, January 22, 2018

Project: Painkiller: An Oral History of the Opioid Epidemic

Interview Summary

Carol Taylor-Shim talks about her twenty years working as a social worker in Fayette County Child Protective Services, and watching how widespread opioid use out many children into the system, how the sheer volume of opioid-related cases has strained social workers and has also left them with secondary trauma.

Interview Accession

2018oh366_pain001

Interviewee Name

Carol Taylor-Shim

Interviewer Name

Nadia Ramlagan

Interview Date

2018-01-22

Interview Keyword

Addiction Child protective services Coping mechanisms Families Funding Heroin Opioid addiction Opioid use Prescription painkillers Secondary trauma Social work Stereotypes Stress Substance abuse recovery Substance abuse Trauma

Interview LC Subject

Child welfare workers. Child welfare Lexington (Ky.) Mental health Opioid abuse Social work and counseling Social workers.

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