Opioid Crisis in Huntington, West Virginia and Manchester, New Hampshire

  • Source: Vision 20/20 - CRR Radio
  • Published: 04/06/2018 12:00 AM

PODCAST - In this episode we focus on what two communities are doing to help mitigate the opioid crisis. First, we talk with Fire Chief Jan Rader from Huntington, West Virginia. Chief Rader was featured in the Netflix, Oscar-nominated documentary Heroin(e) by filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Chief Rader discusses how different parts of the community came together to tackle the growing crisis in Huntington. You can see the trailer for the documentary below. We then talked with Firefighter Chuck Hickey from the Manchester Fire Department in New Hampshire about the Safe Station program. This is a program where anyone suffering from addiction, or wanting help, can go to one of the 10 Manchester fire stations where they are medically assessed and then transported to a clinic for intake.



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