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A Healthy Conversation 10/6/24

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A Healthy Conversation 10/6/24

This week, we’re dialing up the best of A Healthy Conversation. Steve and Jeff celebrate the 16 percent reduction in opioid overdose deaths in Maine. They also discuss candidate and author J. D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, and ask are we safe in an internet connected world as a society?

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