The Healey-Driscoll administration on May 5 announced $1.25 million in matching grants to 18 municipalities and community-based organizations in areas disproportionately impacted by the overdose crisis. The latest round of funding is part of the Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, an initiative designed to help cities and towns expand prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery efforts…
The Healey-Driscoll administration today announced $1.25 million in matching grants to 18 municipalities and community-based organizations in areas disproportionately impacted by the overdose crisis. The latest round of funding is part of the Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, an initiative designed to help cities and towns expand prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery efforts in ways…
The RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to creating solutions to end the overdose crisis in Massachusetts, will award $1.25 million in one-year matching grants to municipalities in Massachusetts through the Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership. Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Municipal Matching Grant Program uses funding to bolster municipal efforts to…
Mass Innovations, From The Beacon, January 2025 As municipalities consider how best to spend opioid remediation funds, Plymouth’s addiction program has served as a model for other communities and has attracted the attention of local, state and federal officials for its work in addressing the crisis. In early 2024, the town established Plymouth ARISE, a…
As the first waves of municipal abatement funds roll out, the Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Addiction Services has launched a new web page with resources for municipalities planning how to use their abatement funds. The online resource also features updates on free harm reduction resources and opportunities to purchase related commodities using…
Attorney General Maura Healey yesterday joined municipal and health care leaders from across the state, as well as families harmed by the opioid epidemic, to celebrate $525 million in funds that have been secured for prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery programs throughout Massachusetts. As part of a $26 billion nationwide resolution with the nation’s…
Over the next two months, every city and town in Massachusetts is eligible to sign on to an agreement that will fund work to address the opioid crisis. In July, Attorney General Maura Healey announced a resolution with three opioid distributors — Cardinal, McKesson and Amerisource Bergen — and opioid-maker Johnson & Johnson that will…
More than 30 Massachusetts cities and towns have committed to joining a nationwide movement of suing pharmaceutical companies and distributors for municipal costs resulting from the opioid abuse epidemic. Chicago was the first city in the U.S. to file such a lawsuit, in 2014. Last December, Greenfield became the first Massachusetts community to file…
