Nick works in the North Side at the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation’s free legal aid clinic, serving the LGBTQ+ community. Listen to what Nick has to say about how the legal system gaslights people with marginalized identities and what they know for sure about human rights, advocacy, and service.
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PA eased telehealth regulations during the pandemic. What happens if the waiver expires?
At first, the pandemic actually kept us in our homes. Y’all remember that? Being on lockdown? For many, COVID and the response to it only intensified the need for health care. And by health care, I mean physical and mental. But have the body and the mind been treated with the same importance? That’s what […]
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Episode 14, Season 2: Lives left in caring hands?— A conversation with a palliative care social worker
Tanisha Bowman is a support and palliative care social worker who serves within the UPMC Hospitals network. From the Source Host Jourdan Hicks speaks with Tanisha about the barriers that race and bias present for people faced with carrying out a loved one’s end-of-life wishes (or advance directives).The misuse of control by practitioners and the […]
Posted inEquity, HEALTH, Inside our Newsroom, posts, PUBLIC SAFETY, Troubled kids, powerful drugs
Video: Are youth offenders in PA drugged into behaving?
PublicSource reporter Halle Stockton explains her latest investigative series about the powerful psychotropic drugs that are being prescribed to Pennsylvania’s most chronic or violent youth offenders. Explore the series.
Posted inEquity, HEALTH, On the beat, posts
Drug companies pony up in illegal marketing cases, but critics wonder if penalties are enough
Big Pharma has written more than $30 billion in checks in the last 10 years to resolve government allegations of illegal marketing practices, according to statistics compiled by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen. Nine drug manufacturers each forked over at least $900 million from 2006 through 2015.
Posted inDATA, DEVELOP PGH, ECONOMY & HOUSING, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, Equity, HEALTH, On the beat, posts, PUBLIC SAFETY
New section gives you resources and tips to take action
We’ve made it a habit to provide readers with a few ways to take action after reading our in-depth and investigative stories on issues of criminal justice, the environment, politics and health.
Posted inDATA, Equity, HEALTH, IN-DEPTH, PUBLIC SAFETY, Troubled kids, powerful drugs
State won’t disclose names of doctors prescribing in youth corrections
VIDEO The state defied an Office of Open Records ruling and took the matter to court to conceal the names of doctors prescribing to kids confined in its six correctional facilities.
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services insisted the physicians who care for and prescribe to the state’s most chronic or violent youth offenders would be endangered if their names were made public.
Posted inDATA, Equity, HEALTH, IN-DEPTH, PUBLIC SAFETY, Troubled kids, powerful drugs
Where’s the oversight of psychiatric meds for PA youth offenders?
VIDEO Pennsylvania is lagging when it comes to tracking the powerful psychiatric medications kids get in the state’s youth correctional facilities.
While other states have reformed the way they control and track such medications so that it is done systemwide, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services follows only the total amount paid for the drugs prescribed in its six facilities on a systemic basis.
Posted inDATA, Equity, HEALTH, IN-DEPTH, PUBLIC SAFETY, Troubled kids, powerful drugs
PA juvenile offenders given psychiatric drugs at high rates
VIDEO Thousands of at-risk kids lived in six state-operated youth development centers and forestry camps from 2007 through 2013. Within the razor wire — or dense tree lines in forestry camps — psychiatric medications are flowing, despite the potential consequences to the developing brains and bodies of kids.
Posted inDATA, Equity, IN-DEPTH, VIDEO
What data and residents tell us about Pittsburgh’s most and least diverse neighborhoods
How diverse is Pittsburgh, really? We built a map to find out.
We also sent reporters across the city to talk to Pittsburgh residents about diversity in their communities.
