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Wareham Police program targets addiction, not addicts “We needed to do something,” she said. But the “Wareham Fighting Against Addiction Drop-In Center,” opened at the Church of the Good Shepherd on High Street a little over three years ago, has been closed due to COVID. Alfonso and Bill Pimental were instrumental in starting the addiction drop-in center and have continued to work on the community’s addiction problem as best they could. Now an ally in their fight against addiction has appeared: the Wareham Police Dept. “Bill and I have been doing things on the back end and then Wa...

John Minchillo/AP Photos Drug overdose deaths hit record levels last year with more than 81,000 fatalities, according to the CDC. Fentanyl, involved in most of the deaths, is now sweeping the western US with a 98% rise in 10 states. The synthetic opioid is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more than heroin. US drug overdose deaths hit record levels last year with more than 81,000 fatalities, according to the CDC. Fentanyl was involved in almost all of them and the dangerous drug is now sweeping the western states, agitated by the COVID-19 pandemic....

02/16/21 WorkersCompensation.com Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Attorney General Becerra, along with a coalition of attorneys general from 47 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories, announced a $573 million settlement with one of the world's largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey). The settlement resolves California's investigation into the company's role in advising opioid companies, helping those companies promote their drugs, and profiting from the opioid epidemic. This is the first multistate opioid settlement to result in substantial payme...

FACE Consortium “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” This quote by James Baldwin was part of the inspiration for a new project in the Copper Country. It’s called FACE (Facing Addiction through Community Engagement), and will focus on supporting loved ones of those dealing with addiction. Recovery from addiction (also known as Substance Use Disorder or SUD) can often overlook the “affected others” such as spouses, parents, and children of the person with SUD. The FACE project aims to change this. Project Director Gail Ploe said...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the news since last spring, pushing aside America's other epidemic — the opioid epidemic — which has only gotten worse in the intervening months.  People who work on the front lines of the opioid epidemic on Cape Cod say isolation caused by COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing protocols that limit access to 12-step and other meetings are part of what's driving the increase. Susan Kinnane of Eastham lost their son Danny Vigliano to an overdose in August. The 35-year-old, whose struggle she said was made worse by the isolation, died alone...