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ONE OF A KIND: This overdose prevention center on Willard Avenue in Providence will be the first state-regulated facility of its kind in the country when it opens later this year.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Providence to host nation’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center

Focus 04/12/2024

The first-ever state-regulated overdose prevention center in the country is on track to open later this year at 45 Willard Ave. in Providence. An overdose...

SAFETY FIRST: Dennis Bailer, left, overdose prevention program director at Project Weber/RENEW, and Izzie Irizarry, lead case manager, assemble safe injection kits at the agency’s South Providence drop-in center. Project Weber/RENEW and CODAC Inc. are scheduled to open a harm reduction site in early 2024. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Overdose hot spot’ to get R.I.’s 1st safe injection center

Focus 04/28/2023

In Providence’s West End, behavioral health care agency CODAC Inc. serves one of the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods in the opioid crisis. From 2016 to...

Brown initiative breaks down long COVID in the workplace

Uncategorized 09/21/2022

PROVIDENCE – According to a U.S. Census Bureau survey, 7.6% of all U.S. adults are currently experiencing symptoms of long COVID, the name commonly...

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Dartmouth has received $1.5 million from the Greater Fall River Development Corp. and the UMass Foundation to support scholarships for area students.

UMass Dartmouth receives $1.5M to support scholarships for local students

04/18/2024

RHODE ISLAND'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE increased to 4% in March, according to the R.I. Department of Labor and Training. /AP FILE PHOTO / NAM Y. HUH

R.I. unemployment rises again, to 4% in March

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