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In the fight against drug overdoses and blood-borne diseases, some Republican and Democratic state lawmakers want to allow groups to hand out medical syringes to drug users in Pennsylvania.
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New University of Pittsburgh research argues that legalizing recreational cannabis leads to a short-term decline in opioid-related ER visits.
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On today’s program: Allegheny County’s chief medical examiner talks about trends in the recently released total number of fatal overdoses from last year; and two mothers tell their experiences in cleaning their homes after losing children to fatal gunshot wounds.
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On today's program: More veterans are dying from suicide than on the battlefield; Crawford Grill could soon be a nationally recognized historic landmark;…
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A federal grand jury has indicted a former Pittsburgh-area physician on 121 counts for illegally distributing opioids, health care fraud and money…
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A memorial wall that includes 22,000 pills — each engraved with the face of someone who died of an opioid overdose — has arrived at the University of…
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*UPDATED: Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018 at 4:35 p.m. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has declared Pennsylvania's opioid addiction epidemic a public health emergency…
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Pittsburgh City Council will bid farewell to two of its own Tuesday. Council member Natalia Rudiak is stepping down after deciding not to run for a third…
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the beleaguered Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.First, the authority was fined $2.4 million by the state…
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Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced plans to supply nearly 300,000 drug deactivation and disposal pouches to a dozen counties hardest hit by the…