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On today’s episode of The Confluence: State Rep. Tracy Pennycuick introduced legislation that would allow clinical studies of psilocybin and psilocybin-assisted therapy for issues such as PTSD or depression; Rochelle Jackson from the Black Women’s Policy Center shares results from a survey of Black women in Pittsburgh that shows their pressing concerns include poverty and mental health; and self-taught Pittsburgh artist John Kane’s legacy and impact.
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Veterans serving time in the Allegheny County Jail will now have their own specialized resources and residential section. The pod opened last month, and…
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The sleep lab at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC looks like an extended stay hotel suite. There’s a small kitchen, sitting room and a…
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There are 5.5 million veteran caretakers in the United States, including spouses, parents, family members and friends who find themselves as the primary…
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The meeting space was standing-room-only at the Carnegie Library branch in East Liberty at Monday’s launch of Pittsburgh’s Human Library project.A library…
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Governor Tom Wolf said Thursday that Pennsylvania doesn’t need the federal government interfering with the state’s developing medical marijuana…
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Earlier this week in Westmoreland County, the Hempfield Township’s zoning hearing board decided to allow a teenage girl to keep her four pet therapy…
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In 1999, Lisa and Sumner Bemis met at a bar during a Penguins hockey game. She was intrigued by his unusual name, “and the fact that he had a Camaro,"…
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As a child in war-torn Somalia, Aweys Mwaliya saw friends and family killed in massacres. Fleeing the country, his family spent weeks walking to Kenya.…
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As a child in war-torn Somalia, Aweys Mwaliya saw friends and family killed in massacres. Fleeing the country, his family spent weeks walking to Kenya.…