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WMHT: A Town Hall Conversation: Heroin in our Community


Topic: Drug Prevention
Posted on 5/5/2016

WMHT’s PBS affiliate WMHT Schenectady, N.Y. hosted a community conversation on October 29 focusing on the heroin epidemic in the Capitol region of New York. Panelists included Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, Dr. Michael Dailey of the Albany Medical Center and Micky Jimenez, RN, Director of Camino Nuevo. The conversation was recorded and broadcast on WMHT-TV on November 9 at 7:30pm. This conversation is part of ’The Dragon Lives Here: Heroin in the Capital Region,’ a multi-media collaboration between WMHT and the Times Union.



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