WRGB CBS6 News: A Second Career: A Local Man Helping People Fight Addiction

WNYT recently aired a story about a homeless veteran who was reunited with his brother, thanks to some Samaritan Hospital nurses, who had been searching for him for more than 30 years.

WRGB CBS6 News shared the story of St. Peter’s Hospital’s first-ever Honor Walk. The walk, held December 22, was in honor of patient Margaret Cahill of Albany.

Jason Kirby, D.O., medical director for St. Peter’s Addiction Recovery Center and Chief of Behavioral Health for SPHP, discusses changes to addiction treatment wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the dramatic increase in overdose deaths during an appearance on WTEN/News10.