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

<p>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</p>

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.

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