Saving lives is Schultz’s personal fight

HEALTHIER COMMUNITY: Cathy Schultz, director of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Governor’s Overdose Task Force, says in 2023 the state saw a reduction in fatal drug overdoses for the first time since 2016. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
HEALTHIER COMMUNITY: Cathy Schultz, director of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Governor’s Overdose Task Force, says in 2023 the state saw a reduction in fatal drug overdoses for the first time since 2016. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH GOVERNMENT/QUASI-GOVERNMENT: Cathy Schultz, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services Governor’s Overdose Task Force director SAVING AND IMPROVING LIVES is Cathy Schultz’s mission in leading the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Governor’s Overdose Task Force. In many ways, it’s personal to her. Schultz’s work,

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