Cape Cod opioid use spiked during the pandemic, we must focus on prevention
According to the Banyan Treatment Center, in 2012 Cape Cod had an opiate prescription rate that was 24% higher than the state average.
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According to the Banyan Treatment Center, in 2012 Cape Cod had an opiate prescription rate that was 24% higher than the state average.
Highlights: "Rock of Ages" at a Barnstable theater, the Provincetown Food and Wine Festival, a Wellfleet Harbor conference, concerts, talks and pie.
At the Academy Playhouse in Orleans, it's all Halloween with a haunted house and "The Vourdalak;" Provincetown Theater Cape-premieres "The Humans."
At the state election on Nov. 8, incumbent Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, who was first elected in 2016, will be challenged by Republican candidate and political newcomer Christopher Lauzon of Barnstable, in representing Cape Cod and Islands. The Cape and Islands district encompasses nearly 185,000 residents in 19 towns; out of the 40 Massachusetts Senate […]
Areas of eastern Massachusetts are either under a frost advisory or freeze warning.