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Tapestry Health’s new headquarters in Pittsfield are open to continue offering Berkshire County sexual, reproductive health care with “dignity and respect”

Josh Landes

A federally funded Pittsfield, Massachusetts, sexual and reproductive health clinic aimed at supporting the underserved has relocated to a new headquarters in the heart of the city. WAMC took a tour of the facility and has this report.

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. The Supreme Court is deciding whether women will face restrictions in getting a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, while a lawsuit continues. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

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Tapestry Health now offering medication abortion services to ‘abortion desert’ Berkshire County

Josh Landes

An interview with Tapestry Health’s Health Services Manager Katrina Mattson.

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Springfield Police, Health Department Look To Collaborate To Prevent Opioid Deaths

Paul Tuthill

The police department in Springfield, Massachusetts and the city’s health department are looking to share information they hope could prevent opioid…

New England News

Hoping To Lower Death Rate, Springfield Steps Up Response To Drug Overdoses

Paul Tuthill

Alarmed by a sharp rise in opioid deaths last year in the third largest city in Massachusetts, officials have taken steps to try to lower the fatality…

New England News

Future of Needle Exchange Program Questioned

Paul Tuthill

A needle exchange program for intravenous drug users in Holyoke, one of just five in all of Massachusetts, continues to operate. A state judge ruled this…