Episode 10

Reducing Harm and Building Connection

March 5, 2021 (pre-recorded 3/4/21): The COVID pandemic has taken most people's focus this past year overshadowing ongoing struggles such as opioid use. Rosie Nevins-Alderfer and Jedediah Popp, Co-Directors of the Windham County Consortium on Substance Use (COSU) join today's show to discuss legislation aimed at reducing harm for people experiencing substance use disorder.

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.