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Grassroots Advocacy Radio with Marsha Padilla-Goad: Conversations to Educate, Empower, and Engage

The Epicenter of the Opioid Epidemic

According to the Centers for Disease Control, from 1999 to 2017, almost 218,000 people died in the United States from overdoses related to prescription opioids. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids were f... 

  Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Host: Marsha Padilla-Goad

Guest: William F. Benson

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Grassroots Advocacy Radio with Marsha Padilla-Goad: Conversations to Educate, Empower, and Engage

The Opioid Epidemic: Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children

With the increase in opioid use in pockets across the U.S., more grandparents and other relatives are raising children whose parents have died, are incarcerated, are using drugs or are in treatment. These caregiver...