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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 44.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s broadcast is a replay that originally aired on September 16, 2019. Hosts William Hosea and Roberta Radovich spoke with three leaders in Monroe County’s opioid addiction recovery community to discuss the ravages of the opioid epidemic hitting Indiana and 2019’s South Central Opioid Summit (September 24, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 44.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHosts William Hosea and Roberta Radovich speak with three leaders in Monroe County’s opioid addiction recovery community to discuss the ravages of the opioid epidemic hitting Indiana and this year’s South Central Opioid Summit (September 24, 2019, 7:30AM to 6:00PM). Our guests are: Greg May – Administrative …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:30 — 24.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bloomington Common Council chambers are uncharacteristically full tonight. Area residents filled the council chambers, in support for Monroe County’s needle exchange program, The Indiana Recovery Alliance. IRA Founder and Director Chris Abert gave a statistically saturated presentation regarding the efficacy of syringe exchange programs. “You have …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:55 — 2.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRev. Forrest Gilmore said the Shalom Community Center’s organization is seeing a reduction in overdose deaths among clients, this year. Gilmore attributes the decline in opioid related deaths to expanded opioid addiction treatment options, and increased homelessness services. In particular, Gilmore pointed to the work of the Indiana Recovery …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:10 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Indiana Recovery Alliance, based in Bloomington, is closing in on reversing 2,000 overdoses. The announcement comes as a new study puts into context the economic impact of the opioid crisis on Indiana. Founder and Director Chris Abert says while that’s a de-humanizing perspective to approach the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:38 — 20.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBlack Lives Matter protesters signal they may disrupt tomorrow’s bicentennial ceremony for the city of Bloomington; The U.S. Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, is urging the widespread adoption of the opioid-reversal drug Naloxone by private citizens; Monroe County will hold its Second Annual Opioid Summit this Fall, on …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:21 — 26.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, Carrier Corp will lay off 300 of its Indianapolis furnace factory employees.    Members of the activist organization Hoosier Action were in Washington D.C. and marched on Republican lawmakers offices, where they staged protests against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also called ‘Obamacare.’ …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:31 — 7.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn a morning press release on July 11, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office stated that a lack of the anti-overdose medication Naloxone made it necessary for deputies to prioritize use of the drug on themselves and other first responders, rather than on people overdosing. Sheriff Brad Swain …