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Megan Brown

Historian

Aug 13, 2026

27:33
So what if someone is starting to experience or or suspect something is happening within their life or maybe not just to them, maybe to themselves? a friend or a family member or someone they know, someone at school, what should that person do or what can they do to try to help out without putting themselves in danger?
28:02
Right.
28:03
So...
28:04
You know, human trafficking didn't become a federal crime until 2000.
28:11
And so for the past like 20 something years, we were always teaching, you know, look out for the red flags and look out for this and look out for this.
28:20
But in reality, you're not really going to be able to walk into a room, the grocery store, a restaurant, you know, a business and just see a person and be like, oh, they're a victim of trafficking.
28:35
There's I mean, there's physical indicators that might can identify them like tattoos.
30:42
Yeah, that's
0:00
I was becoming paralyzed and I was paralyzed up to my chest, but I could still move my arms and my mouth and my head.
0:08
They gave me the medication for it, but the pain did not subside.
0:13
As a matter of fact, it kept getting worse and worse and worse.
0:15
And I had this hospitalist.
0:16
I felt like he was ignoring me.
0:18
And so I remember the last time him being in my hospital room with me, he said, I've given you four milligrams of morphine, or two milligrams of morphine.

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