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

WRGB/CBS6 reported on the warning from St. Peter’s Health Partners, Albany Medical Center, and Ellis Medicine, about longer wait times in hospital emergency departments.

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Jason Kirby, DO, MBA, medical director of addiction and recovery services at St. Peter’s Health Partners, was interviewed by WRGB/CBS6 Albany regarding a new study that finds 78 percent of Americans cannot identify whether their pain medications contained opioids.