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    Guest Speaker: Matt Schmonsees

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    Matt Schmonsees, the court coordinator for the Philadelphia Treatment Court (PTC), visited Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction today to speak about sentencing alternatives …

    Guest Speaker: Fred Way

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    Fred Way, executive director of the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Houses (PARR), spoke to Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction today about recovery …

    Guest Speaker: Keli McLoyd

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    Keli McLoyd, an associate at the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia, spoke to Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction today to discuss medication-assisted …

    Guest Speakers: Chelsey + Judith Cain

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    Chelsey Cain and her mother Judith shared with Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction their personal experiences with addiction–Chelsey as an individual now in …

    Guest Speaker: Roland Lamb

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    Roland Lamb, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, visited Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction to …

    Guest Speaker: Devin Reaves

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    Recovery advocate Devin Reaves spoke to Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction today about how race has impacted the public’s perception of …

    Guest Speaker: Jon Orens

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    Philadelphia real estate investor Jon Orens visited Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction today to share his experience as a father to …

    Guest Speakers: Scott McLane + Rich

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    New Jersey residents Scott McLane and Richvisited Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction today to share their personal stories of addiction and …

    Guest Speaker: Aaron Kucharski

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    New Jersey recovery advocate Aaron Kucharski visited Solutions Journalism: Covering Addiction earlier today to discuss the language of addiction and recovery, …
    ABOUT THIS CLASS

    In this special topics course, a group of students from Temple University’s Department of Journalism in the Klein College of Media and Communication spends a full semester reporting on addiction solutions. Click here to see the syllabus for the Spring 2018 semester, and here to see the syllabus for 2017.

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