Benedict F. Lessing, president and CEO of Woonsocket-based Community Care Alliance, which provides a variety of services for people living with mental-health and addiction issues, discusses the stigma and marginalization of people living with mental-health and addiction issues, and the role that poverty plays. Story, video, charts, images and more podcasts in "The Cost of Addiction," a multi-media production and latest installment in the "State of Health" series, only at providencejournal.com

Benedict F. Lessing, president and CEO of Woonsocket-based Community Care Alliance, which provides a variety of services for people living with mental-health and addiction issues, discusses the stigma and marginalization of people living with mental-health and addiction issues, and the role that poverty plays. Story, video, charts, images and more podcasts in "The Cost of Addiction," a multi-media production and latest installment in the "State of Health" series, only at providencejournal.com

A collection of interviews,  press conferences and news actualities from the Newsroom of the Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island.

News interviews and actualities from  The Providence Journal

From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal

A collection of interviews,  press conferences and news actualities from the Newsroom of the Providence Journal.

Ben Lessing discusses the stigma and marginalization of people living with mental-health and addiction issues

Activists want rent control in Providence this year. Will City Council move to pass it? The Providence Journal's Amy Russo reports on a recent rally in front of City Hall.

Activists want rent control in Providence this year. Will City Council move to pass it? The Providence Journal's Amy Russo reports on a recent rally in front of City Hall.

The Push for Rent Control in Providence

Drivers killed three pedestrians on North Main Street over the past year. Now, members of a new city task force are trying to figure out why the thoroughfare is so hazardous, and what can be done to make it safer. Journal staff writer Amy Russo reports.

Drivers killed three pedestrians on North Main Street over the past year. Now, members of a new city task force are trying to figure out why the thoroughfare is so hazardous, and what can be done to make it safer. Journal staff writer Amy Russo reports.

What's Causing Pedestrian Deaths on North Main Street?

His father, a farmer, lost 200 acres to the reservoir project in the 1960s, and when Breene wanted to buy his own dairy farm later, he ended up having to buy land outside the management area. “I’d rather be down on Big River.” 

“I always felt bad, because some people had some beautiful places and figured they had to get right out because the reservoir was supposed to be built in the early '70s. Some of the people who were older could have just stayed there, the way it all turned out, and finished out their lives where they were happy.” 

His father, a farmer, lost 200 acres to the reservoir project in the 1960s, and when Breene wanted to buy his own dairy farm later, he ended up having to buy land outside the management area. “I’d rather be down on Big River.” 
“I always felt bad, because some people had some beautiful places and figured they had to get right out because the reservoir was supposed to be built in the early '70s. Some of the people who were older could have just stayed there, the way it all turned out, and finished out their lives where they were happy.”

Ben Lessing discusses the stigma and marginalization of people living with mental-health and addiction issues

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