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ROUNDUP: CLEAN SWEEPS & SAFE SPACES

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted October 6, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

From the South End to the South Lawn, lawmakers continue to bungle their opioid response

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addiction, government, opioid, Politics

CONCEPT ALBUM EXPLORES MASS AVE & MELNEA CASS WITH COMPASSION, JOURNALISTIC RHYMES, DOPE BEATS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 15, 2021 Filed Under: MUSIC

“I basically put myself in the shoes of those who I’ve known that have spent time out there and told a few of the stories that just aren’t getting told.”

Filed Under: MUSIC Tagged With: addiction, album, hip hop, Music, rehabilitation

PLANNED INACTION: CRIME OF THE CENTURY CONTINUES, FROM MASS AND CASS TO THE CAPITOL

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted May 17, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"We continue to ask our elected officials to be held accountable for their responsibility to the communities they serve."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addiction, Charlie Baker, Joe Biden, opioid

FROM CLAW MACHINES TO LOOT BOXES, THIS CAN’T BE GOOD FOR CHILDREN

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 21, 2020 Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

Don’t even think about leaving the arcade before you swipe a couple bucks away trying to wrap a claw that couldn’t lift a Lego around an anonymous L.O.L. Surprise! prize the size of a toddler.

Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addiction, arcade, casino, children, gambling, kids

THE RECOVERY DRUG COMMERCIAL YOU WON’T SEE ON TV

Written by Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: Media Farm, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

This interpolative remix of Indivior’s Sublocade commercial was written and produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism as part of its Film Intervening Getting High Team (F.I.G.H.T.) initiative.

Filed Under: Media Farm, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addiction, addicts, china, commercial, criminal justice, Donald Trump, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., fight, opiates, opioids, Recovery, recovery drugs, Sublocade, Suboxone

WALK THIS WAY: A BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE EVENT BORN TO HELP CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IMPACTED BY ADDICTION

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 9, 2019 Filed Under: DigThis, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"It’s going from Central Square in Cambridge over the Mass Ave Bridge and then into the Boston Common. Both cities are heavily affected by drugs and alcohol, and most have a deep sense of community. Families have been torn apart, and they’ve also been brought back together."

Filed Under: DigThis, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addiction, alcohol, charity, DMMF, Glenn Troy, nonprofit, opiates, opioids

SHOULD JOURNALISTS USE THE WORD ‘ADDICT’? I ASKED DIG READERS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 7, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

I have yet to settle on some hard and fast rules for our style guide, but I’m certainly a lot more educated on the matter now that I’ve considered these and other informed comments.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addict, addiction, alcoholic, Changing the Narrative, Journalism, language, media, medication-assisted recovery, opioid disorder, Recovery Dialects, relapse, substance use disorder

SPECIAL FEATURE: FENTANYL IN THE FAMILY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 3, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

Ben Westhoff’s dive into the 'deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic' is the most frightening book of the year, and it’s mandatory reading

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: addiction, addicts, arts, Ben Westhoff, books, Brookline Booksmith, china, criminal justice, Donald Trump, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., Fentanyl Inc., fight, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Recovery, Suboxone, upcoming events, Walter White

SPECIAL FEATURE: SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL

Written by Posted August 18, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: abuse, addiction, AIDS, Boston, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., feature, features, fentanyl, fight, Healthcare, Heroin, long read, longform, longreads, Lowell, Lynn, Massachusetts, Merrimack Valley, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Prostitution

EXIT DRUGS IN THE GREEN ZONE

Written by EMILY ARNTSEN Posted April 17, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

From the doc’s office to the dispensary, Mass continues to fight opioids with cannabis

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: addiction, cannabis, Dispensaries, Dr. Uma, FBI, Heroin, Marijuana, Mass, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, medicine, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, recreational, statistics

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