...and Ed Markey at the MMA Annual Meeting in Boston on Jan. 23. Both senators also called for increased funding for the battle against the opioid crisis gripping the...
The Worcester Board of Health is refining an opioid epidemic action plan that would make the city the sixth in Massachusetts to permit a needle exchange program. The state’s second-largest...
...to report fatalities linked to opioids, and hospitals are required to reports births impacted by opioids. The law requires physicians to participate in the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program if they...
...to use money that Massachusetts received as part of a multi-state settlement related to unlawful foreclosure tactics. The $1 million that Massachusetts received through the settlement funded the grants for...
...proposed amendments, language approved by the Legislature to set up a special trust fund to hold any opioid lawsuit settlement amounts received by the Commonwealth. Chapter 201 includes $727,170 to...
...General Maura Healey vowed to work with cities and towns to combat the opioid crisis. Secretary of State William Galvin, who has attended every MMA Annual Meeting since 1995,...
...and went through the standard criminal justice process. Worcester has been hit hard by the opioid crisis. According to the Department of Public Health, the number of opioid-related overdose deaths...
...much in the way of new resources to support locally-based responses. We all know that the opioid crisis has had a devastating impact on thousands of individuals and families in...
...was reelected in 2018. At the MMA conference in 2016, she said the top priority of her office was combating the heroin and opioid crisis that had hit communities across...
