“Dealers were not hindered by the shutdown,” said Paul Burke, who leads Brooklyn Teen Challenge, a Christian residential recovery program in New York City that saw overdose deaths in its small community of recovering addicts this past year.
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“I have hope in Jesus Christ,” said Burke from Brooklyn Teen Challenge. “People that don’t have that, I don’t know how they manage through all of this stuff … the division in our country … it creates a sense of instability. As people we feel that, we feel scared.”