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Eastern Standard

Eastern Standard - May 9th, 2024

By Tom Martin

Published May 9, 2024 at 10:55 AM EDT

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We explore the anxieties of college student parents with Boston University Staff Psychiatrist Mathilde Ross, Eastern Kentucky University Clinical Psychologist Maggie Freeman, and University of Kentucky Psychologist Shannon Sauer-Zavala. Poet Lynelle Edwards discusses her latest book about life with an adult child with a mental illness. Drug pricing researcher Antonio Ciacia illuminates the costs of our meds. And Josh Douglas, host of our election year special series “Democracy Optimist,” is out with a new book detailing how recent decisions of the US Supreme Court have undermined American voters.

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Tom Martin

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.

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