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Lynn Arditi
health reporter
I'm the health reporter at The Public's Radio in Rhode Island.
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Woonsocket, Rhode Island is a former mill city with the state’s highest per capita rate of drug overdose death. A reporter shares how she approached the story.
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Like so many other American cities, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Woonsocket, Rhode Island has a growing population of unhoused residents.
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A form of addiction treatment called SMART Recovery uses cognitive behavioral therapy and positive thinking to help people beat their drug habit.
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A former mill city of roughly 43,000 people in Rhode Island is a testing ground for a new treatment program designed to bend the rising curve of opioid overdose deaths.
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Despite leading the nation in policies to address opioid addiction, the state’s progress has stalled.