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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 3.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe opioid crisis is raging and solutions are elusive. We have asked what your thoughts are regarding needle exchanges. Do they help or do they enable?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:38 — 16.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMonroe County Commissioners are calling on the Richland Bean Blossom Community School Board to rethink closing Stinesville Elementary School; The Monroe County Commissioners also approved an ordinance creating an opioid awareness commission; The city Bloomington is replacing water mains across town, causing disruptions in water services; The …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:50 — 17.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Cook Group reach an agreement with the City of Bloomington worth $100,000 a year; Indianapolis based developer Mecca Companies, Incorporated has received multiple incentives to increase affordable housing in Bloomington; Monroe County officials and social service agencies come together for Monroe County’s first annual opioid summit. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:48 — 22.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA new standing order from the state’s Health Commissioner will make a non-addictive drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, more widely available; Monroe County Commissioners approved funding for renovations to improve security at the Community Corrections building; Tomorrow is the pretrial hearing for the man accused of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:12 — 24.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington Mayor John Hamilton held a press conference on the increased law enforcement presence at People’s Park and in the downtown area; Demand for social workers has increased as a result of the opioid drug epidemic; Eli Lilly is working with Pfizer to create an alternative pain …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:22 — 4.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week Bloomington police investigated a rash of overdoses ten of which occurred during a 24 hour period alone. As the opioid crisis rages on and its effects are felt in Bloomington voices in the street has gone and asked whether you have been personally affected by …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:50 — 25.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePlanned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky are working with the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge Indiana’s newest abortion law; The Indiana Department of Health has released a report on Opioid abuse throughout the state; The Bloomington City Council  approved a request to amend a planned unit …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:46 — 8.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA recent study from researchers at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI indicates the opioid epidemic may be even larger than we thought. The study, published recently in the Journal of Urban Health, looked at opioid-related overdose deaths in Marion County from 2010 to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:33 — 24.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe city of Bloomington has finished its six-day series of meetings about the proposed annexation of nearly 10,000 acres of Monroe County land; A group of Bloomington residents demanded that a landlord cancel debt for a tenant who they say rented a rat-infested apartment; Indiana Doctors are …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:49 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana governor Eric Holcomb recently created a new position in state government: the executive director for substance abuse, prevention and enforcement. The position is responsible, in part, for responding to the opioid epidemic that has spread across the state and the country. Holcomb appointed the former CEO …