Rhode Island awarded $6.5M to fight opioid addiction
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island has been awarded $6.5 million in federal funding to fight opioid addiction. The state’s congressional delegation announced the funding from a Substance Abuse and Mental Health [...]
A Rhode Island Grandmother Reaches Out to Help Other Grandparents Affected by Opioid Crisis
By Tonya Tavares, Technology Transfer Specialist, VT, ME, NH, RI, CT, MA The Request A Rhode Island grandmother, whose daughter has an opioid use disorder, is now raising her grandchild and requested assistance from the [...]
Health Equity Zone West Warwick
One of the West Warwick Health Equity Zone's (HEZ) priorities is to address the needs of grandparents raising grandchildren due to the opioid epidemic. A resident of West Warwick, Magdalena Andreozzi brought the concept of [...]
The Grandmother Hypotheses
Anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists have even suggested that grandparents—and grandmothers specifically—have played an important role in human survival throughout evolution. The “Grandmother Hypothesis” proposes that help from the maternal grandmother would lead to increased [...]