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Anticipating New Governor, Somerville Hopes To Advance Plans For Supervised Injection Site

Written by CICI YU Posted November 7, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“When people are using them, they're not doing it where people can see it, and they're doing it in a place where they definitely can't die.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Charlie Baker, features, news, opioids, SOMERVILLE, Somerville Wire

MAYOR WU GOING LIVE ON IG TODAY TO SHARE DETAILS OF MASS AND CASS PLAN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 16, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mayor Michelle Wu and senior advisor Dr. Monica Bharel will host an Instagram Live on @MayorWu to share details on yesterday's announcement regarding an updated timeline and key steps to transform the area around Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: melnea cass, news, news to us, opioids, Roxbury, south end

NATIVE AMERICANS, QUINCY EXTEND “OLIVE BRANCH” TO BOSTON

Written by DYLAN J. HEARN Posted November 17, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mayor Wu’s promise of halting the construction of the Long Island Bridge generates cautious optimism

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, features, Long Island, news, opioids, Recovery

THE CRISIS CONTINUES: ABOUT THAT RAGING OPIOID EPIDEMIC

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted December 2, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The data shows that fewer people are overdosing on heroin, but ODs related to prescription opioids continue to rise.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: homelessness, opioids, overdose deaths, rehabilitation centers

“EVERYONE IS COUGHING.” FEAR AND ROVING DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS.

Written by IÑAKI ESTÍVALIZ Posted March 22, 2020 Filed Under: News to Us

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“They tell us, they put up signs, but many don’t read them or ignore them and don’t want to listen, either. None of these people are understanding what we have in front of us."

Filed Under: News to Us Tagged With: coronavirus, news, news to us, opioids, slider

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

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

Written by 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

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

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

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