This summer, our Pittsburgh family took a long-awaited bucket list road trip through Appalachia. We had recently spent 18 months driving the Pan American highway, and while it was an epic journey, the need to deeply explore our roots kept calling to us. We wanted our three children to experience […]
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States are using federal funding to treat substance abuse disorders medically, provide life-saving medication to combat overdoses and build treatment facilities. But more funding needs to go into getting rural residents to those services, some say. Battling opioids in rural areas is more than just providing naloxone and reducing opioid […]
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The twisty roads winding through Appalachia can seem labyrinthine and intimidating to outsiders, but many residents spend an hour or more driving on them to get to work each day. As jobs and people have increasingly migrated to urban areas, those who remain in the many rural localities of Appalachia […]
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