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Opioid addiction causing problems across West Side

By Suzanne McBride | June 18, 2018

PCC Community Wellness Center hosted health providers and others earlier this month to discuss how the opioid crisis is affecting them, their employers and their communities.

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Today’s heroin epidemic similar to HIV/AIDS scourge in the 1980s

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | May 3, 2017

West Side residents can take action to protect their friends, family and neighbors from this sweeping problem that’s more deadly than gun violence and motor accidents.

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