Farm Stress and Opioid Misuse in Agriculture (Podcast)

Repeat guest Mary Nelson Robertson visits the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville to discuss her efforts with the PROMISE Initiative with Mississippi State Extension (http://extension.msstate.edu/the-promise-initiative).  In addition to the PROMISE Initiative, which is an acronym for Preventing Opioid Misuse in the Southeast, Mary Nelson’s other Extension areas include prescription opioid misuse, mental health first aid, and farm stress.  Mary Nelson communicates some staggering statistics related to opioid misuse and farm stress within the farming community.