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Thrift store. Clinic. Roller rink. Center becomes 'radical' lifeline amid homelessness, drug crises

From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It's covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits on a street with other empty lots and decayed ...

Jan 15, 2026

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West Virginia city once battered by opioid overdoses confronts 'fourth wave'

From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County.

Mar 19, 2024

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More schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma

Last year, a student fell unconscious after walking out of a bathroom at Central High School in Pueblo, Colorado. When Jessica Foster, the school district's lead nurse, heard the girl's distraught friends mention drugs, she ...

Oct 7, 2023

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