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In the two weeks following the press announcement that the Peace Corps in Libya was being investigated for possible CIA connections, and the director’s announcement that the Peace Corps was negotiating our safe and orderly departure, volunteers had little to do but worry and wait. The Peace Corps doctor was authorized to distribute Valium to volunteers who asked for it, and so he became known as Doctor Feel Good. He was as worried as anyone, and volunteers who went to him for Valium often found themselves in the position of consoling and reassuring him that everything was going to be okay.
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Carlson, D.L. (2012). Coming Home. In: Carlson, D.L. (eds) Volunteers of America. Transgressions, vol 79. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-737-0_12
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