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BOSTON — Executive Director Allie Hunter and Co-Founder and Board Chair John Rosenthal are pleased to announce 19 police departments in Massachusetts and Maine have been chosen to participate in the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative’s (P.A.A.R.I.) One2One: Engagement to Recovery program. Piloted in the spring and summer of…
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For more than two years, several South End and Newmarket leaders have asked for some sort of needle buy-back program, and that request has now been granted as a grass-roots company has begun buying back needles to be destroyed onsite at a location in the South End. South End Forum…
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Black History Month seems a fitting time to share The Center for Black Health & Equity’s services and resources. The Center promotes campaigns, programs, and resources created for African American audiences. Their culturally competent information, trainings, and strategies aim to end health inequities caused by racism in the Black community. The…
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Wheels of Hope has relaunched and rides to treatment resumed on January 21, 2021. Since launching in January of 2020, this five-month pilot transportation program has provided an essential service to people in the Merrimack Valley beginning treatment, completing more than 100 rides to detox, residential treatment, and sober housing…
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) is asking for youth to share their vaping stories. It is confidential (only info used will be first name and age). MDPH would like to use this info in their new campaigns and educational materials. Please share this survey with youth via social…
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With Christmas approaching, and the COVID-19 pandemic making it more important to stay healthy, you may want to make a resolution for a healthier life for you and your family. If you want to quit smoking or using other tobacco products and tried in the past, don’t give up. Many…
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State data released Wednesday show a 2% increase in opioid related overdoses in Massachusetts for the first nine months of this year. The numbers are the first to bear out what many advocates have feared for months now: that the opioid epidemic may be worsening amid the coronavirus pandemic. A visible epicenter…
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Download the full document here: Overdose Prevention and Outreach Efforts During COVID-19 The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses challenges to engaging with overdose survivors and their social networks, while maintaining the physical distance necessary to reduce the spread of the disease. This document provides recommendations and resources for Post Overdose…
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For two weeks in a row, South End and Roxbury residents have taken to the streets to demand elected officials take action to address impacts to their neighborhoods from the opioid epidemic. Dozens of demonstrators took over the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Washington Street on Sept. 3 to draw attention to issues…
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh told South End residents this week the city has “work to do” as it continues to tackle the impacts of the opioid crisis on neighborhoods surrounding the area known as “Mass. and Cass,” but called for other communities around the state to step up their own efforts to address…
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