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WFLD-TV Chicago Simulcast Show on Opioids


Topic: Drug Prevention
Posted on 5/16/2016

Fox-owned WFLD-TV Chicago simulcast “Rockin’ Recovery" on-air and online on May 16 as part of the station’s ongoing investigative reporting on Chicago’s growing heroin and opioid epidemic. “Rockin’ Recovery" airs every Monday on Harvard Community Radio’s WHIW-LP Harvard, Ill. Show hosts Mike Young and Jason Beaty are recovering heroin addicts who now work for A Man In Recovery Foundation. They were also featured in a December story on the growing number of overdose deaths in Chicago. “We are grateful to be able to give voice to the issue and an important resource to listeners everywhere," said WHIW President Sarah Flashing.



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