Richardson comments on Washington DC murder rate
Perpetual stress brings long-term health impacts
“What we found in our previous research with caregivers of young Black men who had been shot, was that they were also suffering from symptoms of traumatic stress,” he said. “So, the same symptoms that young men who had been violently injured from firearm injury would suffer, we found the same sort of injuries, with mothers, their romantic partners, their wives, their sisters and other family members.”