“People are dying across the state … We need to be open to whatever might be helpful to protect people from the worst consequences of their addictions.”
DEAR READER: I GUESS THIS TURNED INTO OUR ANTI-OPIATE ISSUE
All these years later, it’s absolutely unbelievable what has become of this mess.
EXCLUSIVE: HICKEY’S NEW HABIT
Oxy Morons writer-director returns with a drug-addled North Shore gore fest
HARD DRUG TRUTHS: END MANDATORY MINIMUM DRUG SENTENCES
Street sales of Oxy and the resulting spike in heroin sales led to a whole new wave of nonviolent offenders sent to prison for years with mandatory minimum sentences.
THE HIGH AND THE MARTY
Boston Mayor Walsh is a lousy anti-addiction spokesperson
VIOLENCE DOESN’T HAPPEN IN A VACUUM
It seems like the bad news never ceases at the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families.
LET’S TALK ABOUT CHECKS: MEET THE MASSACHUSETTS POLITICIANS WHO TAKE MONEY FROM THE OXY LOBBY
From 2005 to this year, Purdue Pharma alone spent more than $700,000 hiring four outfits to push its agenda on Beacon Hill.
FEDS URINATE IN OPIATE OCEAN
Right now we’ve got a stage four smack problem and a $2.5 million research plan.
Q&A: FILMMAKER MICHAEL YEBBA ON HIS OPIATE DOC “A WORLD WITH NO SKIES”
Images via Michael Yebba A lot of people have been talking about heroin and Oxy lately, and about how opiates are gutting suburban towns. We’re not mad about that conversation finally happening, it’s about fucking time, but it’s important to remember that some communities, particularly lower income ones, have been wrestling this beast for […]
CHARLESTOWN DRUG FLICK ‘OXYMORONS’ KEEPS THE WAR ON OPIATES RAGING
When Johnny Hickey first cold-called DigBoston more than five years ago looking for us to write about him, he was a twenty-something Charlestown tough with an unlikely story: He had survived a plummet into the Quincy quarries, the end result of a drug deal gone wrong, and was determined to make a film to share […]
