Editor's Note: This story is describes true events and contains explicit (graphic) detail
According to Burke Law VT, in 2016 there were over 2,500 DUI’s processed in the state of Vermont, making...
The Berlin clinic lies in a low, off-white building housing several office. Behind the dark blue door, a snow-soaked carpet leads to the front desks. Bundled up in winter jackets and scarves, new and...
A few years ago, when Daniel Withrow was a Northfield police officer, he was called in to help inspect a vehicle that had been seized after the driver was pulled over for erratic driving and suspicion...
In the back of student services, past the table where the counselors have lunch and the line of computers, is the office of Colleen Dwyer, U-32’s S.A.P. counselor. Colleen works with students facing...
Crystal sits in a booth at the Dunkin’ Donuts in Barre, a thirty-four year old woman wearing a bright blue jacket, hair neatly pulled back. The setting sun is a beautiful orange behind her. Unknown to...
The Emergency Room at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin sees around 30,000 patients a year. Of these, 70% are physical medical emergencies like broken bones, and 30% are mental health related....
Across from Allen Lumber on the Barre Montpelier Road there’s an old house, small, with big windows facing the road. This is the Turning Point Center, a substance abuse treatment facility where addicts...
This is part two in the series "Opiate Responders" Part one is here.
In 2012, Ray Richardson got out of prison and purchased a track phone that he could not turn on.
“I had kept turning it...
This article is the first in a series about professionals working to combat the opiate crisis in our community.
The Vermont State House cafeteria is bright and orderly. As legislators, lobbyists...
