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THE RECOVERY DRUG COMMERCIAL YOU WON’T SEE ON TV

Written by F.I.G.H.T. 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

REMEMBER THEIR NAMES: STUDENT ART CHALLENGES HARVARD TO JOIN OTHER MAJOR INSTITUTIONS IN SACKING MONSTERS BEHIND OXYCONTIN

Written by BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM Posted December 11, 2019 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

As Tufts was announcing last week that it plans to “remove [the] Sackler name from [its] medical school facilities and programs," on Dec 6, one city over in Cambridge, Harvard students joined community members in unveiling a pointed art installation on the topic.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, deaths, fight, FIGHT Opiates, Guggenheim, harvard, opiates, opioids, public health, Sackler, Sackler family, tufts, VT Digger

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 ANA GONI-LESSAN 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

EXCERPT: REAL PEOPLE REAL RECOVERY BY ERIC SPOFFORD & PIERS KANIUKA

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 3, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books

While the opioid epidemic is the most glaring effect, it’s certainly not the only symptom of our societal malaise. Things are getting worse across the board—suicide, homelessness, mass incarceration, ecological disaster. Taken together, all of these factors are making life in 21st century America increasingly untenable.

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Dislocation Theory of Addiction, F.I.G.H.T., fight, Heroin, Johnny Hickey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Politics, Real People Real Recovery, Recovery, recovery drugs, Suboxone, Team Reporting, Videos

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: REAL TALK ABOUT MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT

Written by BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM Posted May 28, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

I got people telling me, “Yes, I’m in recovery, but who the fuck are you to tell somebody how they should recover? Who the fuck are you to tell somebody that they aren’t in recovery because they are on medication?” And I’m like, “Because they’re fucking not! What the fuck are you talking about?”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Beacon Hill, F.I.G.H.T., fight, Heroin, Johnny Hickey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, opiates, opioids, Oxycontin, Politics, Recovery, recovery drugs, Suboxone, Team Reporting, Videos

SACKING SACKLER: TUFTS STUDENTS WORK TO EXPOSE ADMINISTRATION’S THIRST FOR OPIOID BLOOD MONEY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 23, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“I have very close family members who have been directly affected by the opiate crisis ... They struggle with addictions that were brought on by the exact marketing tactics that the Sacklers used to make billions of dollars.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, fight, FIGHT Opiates, Guggenheim, opiates, opioids, Sackler, Sackler family, tufts, VT Digger

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

Written by F.I.G.H.T. Posted February 12, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

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By 2014, it was a full-court press, with Suboxone lobbyists pushing more than 10 bills on Beacon Hill

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: BINJ, donations, F.I.G.H.T., fight, FIGHT Opiates, FOIA, Johnny Hickey, Journalism, lobbyists, money, OCPF, opiates, opioids, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Reckitt, Suboxone

YOUR MOVE, BOSTON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 7, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston Women's March 2017. Photo by Ryan Dorsey, CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic.

 

Only a massive protest movement can stop government giveaways to megacorps

 

Boston politics—in both its state and local variants—seems to consist largely of backroom deals between government officials and major corporations punctuated by rituals of representative democracy that are increasingly put on just for show. Perhaps ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amazon, Apparent Horizon, boondoggle, Boston, Charlie Baker, Column, corporate, corruption, Democracy, economy, fight, General Electric, Giveaway, Jason Pramas, Jeff Bezos, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Protest, public, socialism, taxes

BOSTON COP BEATS UBER DRIVER, STEALS CAR

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 4, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

An off-duty Boston Police Department officer appears to have had a doozy of a ride home from the North End this morning.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: arrest, Boston Police Department, BPD, fight, racial slurs, racism, South Boston, Southie, suspect, Uber

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