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Behavioral Health

A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington in 2019.
(Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Corporate opioid payouts now being finalized would top $32 billion

This comes as communities across the U.S. are scrambling for resources to combat an opioid crisis that keeps getting worse.

4 years ago

File - Supplies are shown on a desk at Safer Inside, a realistic model of a safe injection site in San Francisco,  Aug. 29, 2018. The Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses. The department's stance comes a year after federal prosecutors won a major court ruling that found the sites would violate federal law. The Justice Department tells The Associated Press it is talking to regulators about “appropriate guardrails” for the sites. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Courts & Law

Justice Dept. signals it may allow safe injection sites

The position is a drastic change from its stance in the Trump administration, when prosecutors fought vigorously against a plan to open a safe consumption site in Philadelphia

4 years ago

Coins in a glass jar with the word
The Pulse
Health

The Generosity Spectrum

When it comes to generosity, there’s a wide spectrum in terms of how far we’ll go for others. There’s buy-your-friends-dinner gener ...

Air Date: January 14, 2022

Listen 45:27
Needles are bundled in tens for Philadelphia's Prevention Point's exchange program. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Bill expanding needle exchanges in N.J. moves to full Legislature

The proposal removes a requirement that harm reduction centers get permission from municipal governments to operate.

4 years ago

An illustration of a woman standing on martini glasses.
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – January 3rd

Too much holiday drinking? We'll get tips for a successful Dry January. And, NJ becomes the first state on the east coast to introduce 'Clean Truck Rules'.

Air Date: January 3, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
A rendering of a brain breaking apart into small pieces
The Pulse
Science

Amnesia, Opioids and Why We Forget

In 2018, Owen Rivers woke up in a hospital bed after a fentanyl overdose — and could no longer form new memories. It was a terrifying e ...

Air Date: December 10, 2021

Listen 49:32
File Photo: Safe injection site supporters in Philadelphia rallied outside a federal hearing to determine if the proposed Safehouse would violate the federal Controlled Substances Act.
Health

Time for Safehouse to ask forgiveness, not permission, on Philly supervised injection site, experts say

Once the national leader in the charge to open a supervised injection site, the nonprofit group is mired in legal battles, with no clear path out.

4 years ago

A person holds a box of Narcan spray
Health
Billy Penn

‘Narcan Near Me’: Philadelphia to pilot Narcan vending machines to help stop fatal overdoses

The first machines will be installed in South and West Philly, where opioid-related deaths are on the rise.

4 years ago

This photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (Patrick Sison/AP Photo)
Health

U.S. overdose deaths topped 100,000 in one year, officials say

An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone.

4 years ago

Harm reduction advocates arguedvthat banning smoking in treatment would act as yet another obstacle to recovery. (stasokulov / BigStock)
Health

Philly rolls back smoking ban at inpatient drug treatment centers

Harm reduction advocates criticized the policy, arguing that banning smoking in treatment would act as yet another obstacle to recovery.

4 years ago

Maria Quiñones-Sanchez arriving at her victory party back in 2019 when she won the race for the 7th Council district. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 11/8/21

City Councilmember Maria Quinones Sanchez discusses her breast cancer diagnosis. And, Dr. Aaron Beck, pioneer of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, passed away last week at 100.

Air Date: November 8, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
Jaime Arafin is one of 28 women featured in Tattoo Monologues: Indelible Marks on the Body and Soul (book photo by Ken Kauffman)
Radio Times
Health

‘Tattoo Monologues’ and treating trauma

Body art can tell personal stories. For many of these women, tattoos are a way to reclaim the past and take ownership of the future.

Air Date: November 4, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:28
David W.C. MacMillan, one of two winners of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, smiles as he is interviewed outside the Frick Chemistry Laboratory and Department of Chemistry at Princeton University, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Princeton, N.J. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 10/18/21

A Nobel Prize winner joins us. And, what does the American Heart Association have to say about salt and aspirin?

Air Date: October 18, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Iresha Picot sits on a stool in her home
Community

Meet Iresha ‘da hood therapist’ Picot, Instagram healer

Iresha ‘da hood therapist’ Picot is a licensed behavioral therapist who has built a community around a practice of self-care that she says she didn’t have growing up.

4 years ago

Listen 2:04
Two-way dialogue/BigStock
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Interrupting and the art of conversation

"As offices and schools reopen, and we venture into more in-person social gatherings, we’re having to relearn how to have conversations," says Deborah Tannen.

Air Date: October 6, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
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