...Opioid Use Disorder: Managing and Supporting Employees • Re-evaluating Your Employee Evaluations • Renewing the Municipal Energy Landscape • Riding Into the Future: Innovations in Municipal Transit • Transparency Basics:...
...Examples of potential new local-option revenues could include a locally determined excise on liquor sales to fund local substance-use-disorder programs and services to combat the opioid crisis, or a locally...
...in conjunction with the Massachusetts Municipal Association. He will be sorely missed.” Most recently, McGlynn served as co-chair of the MMA’s Opioid Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force, which...
...of the country like Iowa last year and talking to people about the issues important to them, like transportation, economic development to create opportunities, housing and the opioid crisis. “I...
...her commitment to battling the opioid crisis, a topic discussed by a number of speakers, including U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, as well as during workshops throughout the...
...Patrick declared a public health emergency, urging state officials to take immediate action to fight what he called the state’s opioid addiction epidemic. A State Police report released in February...
In response to a spike in the number of heroin and opioid overdoses throughout the state in recent months, the Senate on May 13 unanimously passed a bill intended to...
...quickly, such as unfunded mandates, homeless families living in motels, pension costs, and the opioid crisis. “As local officials, you are on the front lines and should be setting the...
Mass Innovations, From the Beacon, April 2015 North Reading’s “Community Impact Team” was created three years ago to combat opioid abuse. It has evolved into a far-reaching social services program,...
...preemption of local health board regulations and zoning bylaws, regulation of “edibles,” and the murky legal status of recreational sellers and users under federal law. Citing the current opioid...
