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CITY OF SOMERVILLE PARTNERS WITH FENWAY HEALTH FOR SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITE

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted April 12, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Managers, officials, and task force members say we must save people from overdoses

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: drugs, Health, overdose, safety, supervised consumption site

GUEST OPINION: END BOSTON’S WAR ON DRUGS

Written by JAMES DAVIS & SARKO GERGERIAN Posted June 16, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Prohibition endangers public safety and police officers

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, drugs, Police, prohibition, safety

SPECIAL FEATURE ON PSYCHEDELIC DECRIMINALIZATION IN MASS

Written by JULIET ISSELBACHER Posted March 9, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

You’re not hallucinating—there is actually agreement and momentum toward psychedelic decriminalization in Mass.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: cannabis, drugs, features, news, news to us, Talking Joints Memo

THE POLICY POLICE: CANNABIS COP AND GOP COHORT CHALLENGE CANDIDATES AND EDUCATE VOTERS ON WHY DRUGS SHOULD BE LEGAL

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted February 8, 2020 Filed Under: News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Everyone knows we are a mosquito on the butt of an elephant ... I’ve had cops see my shirt and get inches from my face about it.” 

Filed Under: News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, candidates, cannabis, caregiving, Citizens Agenda, criminal justice, Deval Patrick, Don Murphy, Donald Trump, drugs, Elizabeth Warren, engagement, gun control, guns, Heroin, Howard Cowboy Wooldridge, immigration, income inequality, Joe Biden, law enforcement, local media, Manchester Divided, Marijuana Policy Project, Michael Bloomberg, money in politics, MPP, New Hampshire, opioids, Pete Buttigieg, police brutality, Politics, primaries, Primary, religion, SCOTUS, Shaskeen Pub, taxes, Tom Steyer, town halls, voter rights

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

MAYOR CURTATONE’S COUSIN, A COP, WAS CAUGHT UP IN THE DRUG SCENE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. PEOPLE IN POWER KNEW, BUT NOBODY DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

Written by Posted October 24, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Capobianco was the department’s—and the city’s—worst-kept secret, and over the course of more than a decade, numerous officers informed SPD administrators about his addiction and dealing. Yet not a single person took action to address the issue.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: drugs, Joe Curtatone, Joseph E. McCain, opioids, Oxycontin, Police, Safe Injection Sites, SOMERVILLE, Somerville Police Department, SPD

LOCAL MOVIE, MAJOR THEATER: HOW FILMMAKER JOHNNY HICKEY GETS HIS MASS FLICKS ON THE BIG SCREEN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Film

"You go to these different places and you’re not Hollywood, you’re a local guy. It was really hard the first time, but Oxy Morons earned me credit in that world—a lot of people I became connected with really came to believe in what I am doing."

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Boston, Brittany Baldi, charlestown, Chris "C.T." Tamburello, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, F.I.G.H.T. Opiates, fentanyl, films, Foxboro, Gloucester, Habit, Habitual, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, North Shore, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World, Showcase Cinema d Lux, Stiz Grimey

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

THE LONGEST TRIP

Written by JENNY ROLLINS Posted May 16, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Boston Uber

An Uber driver recalls a fare he drove all the way from Massachusetts to Miami and wonders, Wait a minute, what the hell was in the trunk?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, cabbie, cabs, drugs, Florida, longest Uber ride, Lyft, miami, Uber, Waltham

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