From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal

CODAC head Linda Hurley and client Anthony Perito discuss opioid addiction and the help that is available, including talk therapy and medication assisted treatment, or MAT. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo. Story at providencejournal.com.

Blackstone Valley Community Health Care Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cristina Pacheco discusses the challenges and successes of caring for patients during the coronavirus pandemic. NOTE: At some points, there is the background sound of a camera clicking as The Journal photographed Dr. Pacheco. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com

Joined by his sister, Kara Sweeney Guerriero, Rafe Sweeney, 53, discusses living with mental illness and his ambition to help others when he finally is released from the hospital back into the community. @gwaynemiller #Podcast for @projo - Story and video at providencejournal.com

Rhode Island Department of Health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and Thomas McCarthy, head of the department’s COVID-19 unit, discuss the local impact of pausing administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which has caused six adverse reactions, including one death, elsewhere in the U.S. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story at providencejournal.com

Tim Gray is this week's guest on Story in the Public Square, the weekly national PBS TV and SiriusXM program cohosted by Journal Staff Writer G. Wayne Miller and a partnership of The Providence Journal and the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. In the southeastern New England market, the show airs at 11 a.m. on Sundays on Rhode Island PBS and is rebroadcast Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.. Listen now...

Dr. Chuang-Kuo Wu, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Lifespan’s Rhode Island Hospital, and associate director Dr. Jonathan D. Drake, provide guidance to people living with Alzheimer’s and related dementias and their caregivers – and give an update on research. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo story at providencejournal.com  

McMichael, a veteran of the Providence Fire Department who left to become chief here two years ago, is having to deal with the fallout from former Mayor Joseph J. Solomon’s decision not to grant the department’s request to fill 14 vacancies.

'Ultimately Things Will Be OK' Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin reflects on the pandemic year of 2020 and looks ahead to the rest of 2021, 2022, and the first few months of 2023.  On April 1 of that year, Tobin will turn 75, the age at which the Vatican requires bishops to submit their retirement. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com   

Butler Hospital and Brown University psychiatrist Dr. Christine Montross specializes in the treatment of people living with severe mental illness, including in teh state prison system. On this episode of Story in the Public Square, Montross, author of Waiting for an Echo, exposes the wrongs of imprisoning such vulnerable people. Story at providencejournal.com “Story in the Public Square&rdqu...

It’s been one year since the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the globe. Dan Barry reminds us that behind the headlines and the previously unimaginable counts of cases and deaths, there are stories of individual lives interrupted and, all too often, cut short by the pandemic. Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter and best-selling author Barry is this week's guest on Story in the P...

This week on Story in the Public Square: Rhode Island resident Amy Bruni, paranormal investigator and co-star of the Travel Channel’s hit show, “Kindred Spirits,” and previously on “Ghost Hunters.” She is the author of “Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I learned about Ghosts.” Telly-winning Story in the Public Square is broadcast coast-to-coast on PBS an...

If you have ever visited the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter -- and many people from Rhode Island and beyond have -- you can appreciate the preservation and celebration of Native American history, culture and art that is the mission of the center, founded in 1958 by Princess Red Wing, who was of Narragansett and Pokanoket-Wampanoag descent. You also may appreciate the profound need for a new museum home...

Butler Hospital child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Tammi-Marie Phillip discusses the mental health challenges many kids are facing in the COVID-19 pandemic. “We've been seeing significant depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms a lot,” she said. “And a higher frequency of kids who are coming in because of suicide attempts -- and very serious suicide attempts… We've bee...

You may have seen him on TV, providing expert insight into the #COVID-19 pandemic. You may have listened to him on The Providence Journal/USA TODAY weekly podcast, “COVID: What Comes Next,” or read his commentary and guidance on these pages and in other publications. Now you can interact with #pandemic expert Dr. Ashish Jha virtually, thanks to Boston’s Museum of Science, which m...

Central Falls Councilwoman Glendaliz Colón discusses the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, which has been especially hard-hit. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and videos at providencejournal.com

Maria Rivera, mayor of Central Falls, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, which has been especially hard-hit. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and videos at providencejournal.com

Dr. Michael Fine, Chief Health Strategist for Central Falls, discusses the economic, education, housing, health and social disparities underlying the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, which has been especially hard-hit. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo – story and videos at providencejournal.com

Lorén M. Spears, executive director of the Tomaquag Museum and a woman of Narragansett and Niantic descent, discusses the anticipated nomination of Native American U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland to head the Interior Department and other issues of interest to Indigenous and all people as President-elect Joe Biden builds his administration. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo -- story at providencejourn...

Jeff Cartee, executive vice president of Junior Achievement of Rhode Island, says the program has endured because it has evolved with the changing labor market. 

It was 20 years ago that surgical and medical teams from Hasbro Children’s and Women & Infants Hospitals in Providence, R.I., joined to become New England pioneers in correcting twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a potentially fatal and previously unfixable condition involving a mother and her unborn babies. Suzanne Bartalini Marcus and her family are among the many people who are celebr...

Silvermoon Mars LaRose, a leader in Rhode Island's Native American community and assistant director of the Tomaquag Museum, discusses her job, her writing, her love of children, her respect for Mother Earth, and more. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story and video at providencejournal.com

“I never ran a negative campaign, nor did he.” So said President-elect Joe Biden about the late Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island in a telephone interview on Dec. 14, 2009, when he was nearing the end of his first year as vice president during the first term of President Barack Obama. “This notion of a sense of honor,” Biden also said, was something he, Pell, and Republic...

Dr. Megan Ranney, Brown University professor and an emergency physician at Lifespan’s Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals, discusses issues surrounding the coronavirus vaccines on the horizon, including the legitimate historical concerns some communities of color have regarding new medical procedures and drugs. @gwaynemiller #podcast for @projo - story at providencejournal.com

For nearly three decades she has worked to preserve and renovate a building she used to visit as a child growing up in Westerly.