We’ve spent the entire week talking about addiction with a focus on opioids and fentanyl. Today, our focus is on prevention especially what it takes to help young people avoid addiction. We started by talking about prevention efforts in schools
Today, we are focusing on solutions to the fentanyl crisis. Already, state and local governments across the country are making use of opioid settlement money. Lean how Illinois compares and what ways our state can better treat those suffering f
All week we are focused on the opioid and fentanyl overdose crisis in Illinois. This segment is about harm reduction. What does it mean? Why is it important? And what do efforts at harm reduction look like in different parts of the state?
All this week we are focusing on fentanyl. We begin with the writer and journalist Sam Quinones, author of “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” and “The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and
A survey conducted by The National Community Pharmacists Association found more than 70% of pharmacies were experiencing staff shortages. For rural communities, where pharmacists are the only outpost of health care in the town, these shortages
Today we recognized Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day and celebrated the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps through a discussion of their history and legacy with the head of African American Studies at the University of Il
Tens of thousands of Americans who gave their lives in wars around the world have not yet received a proper burial. A team helping locate those missing in action came to Illinois to talk about their work and how technology is changing their sea
We interview Toya Wolfe, author of ‘Last Summer on State Street,’ as we learn how she shaped her first fictional story, set in the historic torn-down landmark, The Robert Taylor Homes.
Illinois politicians are celebrating the upgraded train speeds of 110mph from Chicago to St. Louis, but why is the US behind Asia and Europe with 200 mph trains?
Today we will be hearing the unique story of a Princess from Sierra Leone. who was born and adopted in West Virginia and searched for her birth family to find out she’s from a royal lineage and in fact, a Princess.