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Connections: Previewing the documentary, "Opioids from Inside: First Responders"

By feedbot ~ Posted Mon, 06/22/2020 - 2:59pm
As of earlier this month, Monroe County has seen an increase in opioid overdoses -- both fatal and non-fatal --compared to this time last year. The work...
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Mon, 06/22/2020 - 10:35am
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Connections: Dr. Tim Wiegand on the state of opioid prescriptions

By feedbot ~ Posted Tue, 06/16/2020 - 3:12pm
We continue our conversation with Dr. Tim Wiegand from UR Medicine about the opioid crisis. This hour, Dr. Wiegand discusses an opioid prescription "opt...
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Tue, 06/16/2020 - 10:16am
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Connections: How the pandemic has impacted the opioid crisis

By feedbot ~ Posted Wed, 06/10/2020 - 2:31pm
We check in on the opioid crisis and how the pandemic has impacted it. Harvard’s Julia Marcus has compared the pandemic to the opioid crisis and the...
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Wed, 06/10/2020 - 10:18am
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Baxter: Overdose deaths down in 2019 -- 'but we can't claim victory'

By feedbot ~ Posted Thu, 03/05/2020 - 7:42pm
Deaths from heroin in Monroe County have shrunk by a wide margin over the past two years, but users are still overdosing at roughly the same rate,...
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Thu, 03/05/2020 - 1:00pm
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