Tag: health care

  Thad Shunkwiler, assistant professor in the department of Health Science at Minnesota State Mankato, joins us again this week for part 3 of our discussion on addiction. We have already covered how methamphetamines are the drug of choice in Greater Minnesota these days, and a shortage of licensed treatment providers is leading policymakers to think ...

  We have a conversation this week with Thad Shunkwiler, assistant professor of Alcohol and Drug Studies at MN State University, Mankato, about addiction problems around the state besides opioids and a few of the issues that need to be addressed to tackle the problem.

  Last week Diana Anderson, president of the Southwest Initiative Foundation in Hutchinson, talked with us about the work they’re doing to close the opportunity gap for low-income families in southwest Minnesota. She joins us again this week to talk about their Grow Our Own summit coming up Nov. 8 in Marshall. At the summit ...

  This week on RuralMn Radio, Phill Claussen, Blue Earth County Human Services Director, and Angela Youngerberg, Director of Business Operations for Blue Earth County Human Services, join us again to talk further about the county’s Yellow Line Project. This week they talk about how the project gives provides law enforcement and offenders more options ...

  We talk this week again about the drug crisis in Minnesota and the new research piece by the Center. This time we look at the major cost not just to individuals and families but to society as well, especially at the local level.

  This week we revisit the topic of drugs and addiction ahead of the release of the Center’s latest research, “It’s an addiction crisis,” discussing the rise of meth in Greater Minnesota and how both meth and opioids impact individuals, families and society. This week we look at the larger picture, the complex nature of ...

  While the nation struggles with the opioid crisis, in rural areas the drug of choice is an old foe: meth. Cheaper and purer than it was ten years ago, it has made a strong comeback, particularly in rural areas. This week, Jim and Marnie talk about the Center’s upcoming article on what is not ...

Across Minnesota, the “opioid crisis” is so much more than just opioids June 2018 By Marnie Werner, VP Research & Operations For the executive summary, click here. For a printable version, click here. If there were any doubt that opioids are the major health emergency of our time, two facts can put that doubt to ...

  This week we finish our conversation with Center board member and Minnesota Farm Bureau President Kevin Paap. Kevin touches on the Farm Bill and health insurance for farmers.