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Who Will Fill My Prescription?
Charles Walgreen was born to Swedish immigrants in 1873. He became a pharmacist and purchased his first pharmacy on the South Side of Chicago in 1901. He chased the American Dream and, by 1916, owned nine drug stores. He took Walgreens public in 1927, introduced the lunch counters, and invented the malted milkshake. Walgreens became…
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JTA hands out Narcan while city officials spend opioid slush fund equitability
When I started writing this last month, I intended it to be a short piece about the Jacksonville Transportation Authority hosting Narcan training courses aboard its Safety on the Move bus. As well as the Authority’s efforts in solving the city’s opioid overdose crisis. However, I soon found myself lost in a world of local…