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[the--abditory]

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“Project Lazarus: File 0”

(DP x DC — Suspense / Mystery / Batfam Chaos)

It starts with an email. A corrupted one. No sender, no subject line — just a blinking attachment labeled:

PROJECT_LAZARUS_FILE_0.EXE

Tim opens it on a sandboxed console in the Cave. Because of course he does.

The file doesn’t run — it plays a heartbeat. Then a distorted voice whispers:

“You shouldn’t have found this, Timothy.”

Static. Then coordinates. Arctic Circle.

Jason whistles low. “If this summons a killer snowman, I’m quitting.” Bruce’s jaw tightens. “Prep the jet.”

When they arrive, they find nothing. Just an abandoned research base buried in ice. Except for a single, glowing containment tube.

Inside: a boy. White hair. Faintly luminous. His vitals read dead, but his reflection keeps blinking.

Cass signs: He’s watching us.

Bruce steps closer — and the monitors flare to life. Lines of code race across them, rearranging into words:

PROJECT LAZARUS – STAGE ONE: CLONE SUCCESSFUL. HOST CELL: B.W. DONOR ENTITY: D.F.

Tim frowns. “B.W. — Bruce Wayne? What’s D.F.?” The boy in the tube opens his eyes.

“Danny Fenton,” he says softly. “And Bruce… was never supposed to wake up.”

Jason: “I KNEW IT WAS A ZOMBIE THING!”

Danny steps out, frost rising from his feet.

“Ra’s thought he could copy death. He used my DNA — ghost core energy — to rebuild what he lost.”

He looks at Bruce, eyes glowing faint green.

“You’re not a man anymore. You’re an echo that never stopped fighting.”

Bruce: “If that’s true, then what are you?” Danny smiles — sharp and sad.

“The original mistake trying to fix itself.”

The alarms go off. The base trembles. The screen flashes one final message:

STAGE TWO ACTIVATED: THE PIT REMEMBERS.

From the darkness beyond the ice, something screams.

💀 “To be continued — The Pit Remembers” Read Full ➜

[inked-n-reckless]

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[gabrielw1211]

Team Lazarus Wrap Up

As the semester comes to end, Team Lazarus created a presentation which gave a brief overview of Project Lazarus in Harnett county, the role of team Lazarus in the initiative and the tasks that we completed, challenges we faced during our practicum, the importance of this initiative in Harnett county, and lastly the future needs of project Lazarus. This presentation was a great way to end the semester because it gave me a chance to look over the semester and sum up everything that we have learned since we began in August.

            So far the primary goal of Project Lazarus in Harnett County has been to educate and raise awareness within the community about prescription drug abuse and misuse. Over the past few months, we have had the opportunity to meet with the local health department, the sheriffs department and Harnett County EMS. These were the most informative sessions about prescription drug abuse and misuse specifically in Harnett County.  Our biggest event, was a meeting with community stakeholders such as doctors, nurses, teachers, and members of the faith community. This meeting provided us with a lot of data that we hoped to use to apply for a grant. However, we were unable to go through the grant writing process during our time with Project Lazarus.  I most enjoyed participating in events that engaged the community and I hope that in the future there will be more opportunity for other students who get involved in this initiative to spend more time doing community outreach. I feel that there is so much to be learned from the community and based on the meeting that was held they have a lot good ideas that can help Project Lazarus accomplish its goals for Harnett County.

            We also,  created a public service announcement that was placed in the local newspaper. I enjoyed this task it was an opportunity to be creative and it also gave us a chance to brainstorm other ideas for targeting other populations. During our wrap up meeting with our preceptors we suggested getting involved with the school system and possibly arranging for people from project Lazarus to go to different schools in the area and speak or hold a competition in which middle and high school students would create there own PSAs about prescription drug abuse. Overall, I feel that if we had more time working on this initiative there are a lot of opportunities to educate and raise awareness within the community.

            Team Lazarus also spent time creating a presence on social media. We created a Tumblr page that has a lot of articles with useful information about prescription drug abuse. We spent hours pouring over articles and other forms research that we were able to put on the Harnett County Project Lazarus webpage.  I believe that the webpage is one of our biggest successes of the semester. Largely, our practicum a positive experience . It wasn’t perfect by any means but we were given the opportunity to work in a public health setting and there is so much that we learned from our successes and our failures. By far our biggest challenge was communication. It felt like we didn’t have as much as guidance as we would have liked. We also would have liked to have spent more time doing community outreach. However, because this initiative has only just begun it is understandable why there were not as many opportunities to spend time interacting with the community.  Overall, the  experience provided me with knowledge that I  am confident I will be able to use in the future.  I look forward to seeing the progress that Project Lazarus  makes in Harnett County and I hope that in time there is a decrease in prescription drug abuse and misuse in the community.

[gabrielw1211]

Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour

Linebacker Austin Box of the Oklahoma Sooners takes a break during a game in 2010. Box died of an accidental prescription drug overdose the following year. Austin Box “gutted through” pain. Even after a bad blow to his back that … Continue reading →

[gabrielw1211]

A portrait of Oceana, WV, an old coal mining town that has become the epicenter of the Oxycontin epidemic, earning the nickname Oxyana. Directed by Sean Dunne.

This film provided team lazarus with a lot of useful information about prescription drug abuse in rural areas. This is one of the links that will be found on the Harnett County Project Lazarus webpage. 

[alexandragamrod]

Wrapping up!

This past week, after finalizing our church community flyers and collecting documentaries for the Harnett County website, Team Lazarus is completing their presentation for our Rural Health Class.  We are preparing to talk about the benefits and limitations we have faced during our practicum, the future benefits that we hope to see Project Lazarus have in Harnett County, and how our practicum plays a role in rural health.  We look forward to sharing our experience with the class and hope that they have seen the benefits and failures from their practicum that we have with ours.

[alexandragamrod]

Try Again and Think Quick!

Team Lazarus has been creating draft bulletins and PSA announcements for the past few weeks for the local community in Harnett County.  Handing out the flyers this next week will prove to be successful or a set back.  On the one hand, I am hoping that the people of the faith community are receptive to the information we provide in that they decide to educate themselves on the issue of prescription drug abuse.  However, as a part of Team Lazarus, I need to understand that some faith communities will not be open to conversing about drug abuse.  It is our responsibility to be cautious when educating different divisions of the community and it is important to be sensitive to topics that are not easily accepted.  Because we chose to strictly provide the facts and offer places for prescription medication drop off, I think that our flyers will not be rejected.

Lately, I have been thinking about the social effects of prescription drug abuse and the impact one abuser has on their community.  Peer pressure can play a large role in how a person starts abusing prescription drugs, as well as the environment this person grows in.  It is important to look at all aspects of the abusers life when trying to address the problem and treat the addiction.  What about the family members of abusers that do not also abuse prescription drugs?  The stress that an abusers family encounters is something an outsider cannot measure.  Often, the family has an increase of psychological distress when constantly worrying about the abuser and depression when questioning what to do.  The community needs to recognize that when dealing with a person that abuses drugs, the abuser is not the only one affected.  As a community, Harnett County needs to work together to heal relationships between the abuser and the family and the family and the community.  Often people dealing with this situation feel exiled from their community and that should not be the case.  We can help!

I met a man going through recovery.  I never understood how real the situation of drug abuse was until I heard his ideas for caring for other abusers.  “See that cucumber over there, that is a child.  If that cucumber becomes a pickle, that child becomes a drug abuser.  That pickle will never be a cucumber again.”  His message wasn’t prevention before the abuse; it was on how to treat the abuser.  His quote hit hard and maybe it isn’t as clear, but the way he told the story and his expressions to the situation helped me understand that he was emotionally invested in recovering drug abusers.  To me, he mainly spoke about opioid abuse and the people he works with; the fear that races over you when you get hurt and when the doctor prescribes you medication.  He said that it is out of an abusers ability to go back to their previous lifestyles.   I was interested in the way he spoke about the family and how it is the family’s responsibility to care for the abuser and not blame them. 

It got me thinking about Project Lazarus and its motto that it is the community’s responsibility for their own health.  Project Lazarus is a secular, non-profit organization.  The importance of applying the knowledge that Project Lazarus offers to the community relays that the community is the solution.   I heard this man speak about this same idea.  With the same views on the topic we should be able to make a big impact!  Team Lazarus wants to get into the local schools to educate the students on the effects of prescription drug abuse.  It may be a better idea to begin educating students at a younger age, beginning in elementary school.  I would like to know how many schools have programs in place that provide them with the dangers of prescription drugs, however, there is research done in North Carolina that found that some of these programs have increased the numbers of drug abusers in schools.  This is because it is said to provide students ways of obtaining these drugs.  I am interested in looking at the education methods that were used, as well as, the information that was provided.

Without enough funds we will not see drastic change.  I believe we will see change, but compared to the funds in the counties located in metropolitan areas, it will not be as prevalent.  The grant given to Harnett County to begin its work against prescription drug abuse will prove difficult to make a large impact.  At the beginning of this project we saw a large turn out of healthcare workers, faith community leaders, and local schools. From Team Lazarus’ view, we have not seen the strength in numbers as months has passed.  Hopefully this is not the case for the Harnett County Health Department.  The work they have done to receive this grant money has been large and I hope as Team Lazarus we have helped lighten that workload. 

In public health, I constantly tell myself to try again.  Every obstacle I run into has made me a quick thinker and has forced me to educate myself, not only on prescription drug abuse numbers in Harnett County, but across the state of North Carolina and the rest of the country.  As we near the end of the semester I hope to hear from the Harnett County Health Directors that Team Lazarus has been a big help in furthering the process to reduce prescription drug abuse.