by Jason Langevin | Jul 12, 2018 | In the News
The silent, unseen victims of the opioid crisis are the children of those battling addiction, the “opioid orphans” who bounce from foster homes to facilities in search of their forever homes. The Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield helps many children...
by Jason Langevin | Jul 10, 2018 | In the News
Whatcom County ‘greatly impacted’ by prescription drug abuse WHATCOM — The county is suing the largest manufacturers of prescription opioids in the country. A federal lawsuit, filed on June 27 by the county Prosecutor’s Office, asks for damages from pharmaceutical...
by jordan | Jul 5, 2018 | In the News
The federal government’s top disease fighter, who built his career battling the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, says the opioid epidemic will be even worse. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has dubbed the...
by jordan | Jul 3, 2018 | In the News
At home in the village of Holley, not a single day goes by that Tammi Bale can forget the night she lost her son. “March 10th, 2016 I got a phone call about 11 o’clock at night—actually a text saying call me, Bob is dead,” she said. Her son, Robert Bale,...
by jordan | Jun 28, 2018 | In the News
COLUMBUS, Ohio -The state auditor says Ohio’s health safety net provided by Medicaid is being stretched thin because of the opioid epidemic. A new report from the Ohio Auditor’s Office shows the number of Ohio Medicaid recipients with an opioid-related...
by jordan | Jun 26, 2018 | In the News
A woman crouches on the sidewalk next to her boyfriend, who is unresponsive and not breathing after an opioid overdose in the Boston suburb of Everett, Massachusetts, on August 23, 2017.BRIAN SNYDER / REUTERS In 2016, 64,000 people died from drugoverdoses in the U.S.,...
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