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Mass. Attorney General Talks About Opioid Abuse Crisis

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The role overprescribing of painkillers plays in the opioid crisis was the topic of a conference this week in Holyoke, Massachusetts.  Hosted by the Northwestern District Attorney’s office, the conference was attended by doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others involved in health care and law enforcement.  Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey addressed the conference and afterwards spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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