BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and the state Department of Public Health on Wednesday announced plans to steer $700,000 in grants to Boston and 39 other Bay State communities hit hardest by the opioid drug crisis.
The money will be used to buy and administer naloxone, also known as Narcan, a medication that has been proven to treat heroin and other opioid overdoses. Opioids like fentanyl and oxycodone are highly addictive synthetic opiates.
MARLBOROUGH –Too often, local news outlets report tragic tales of newborn infants abandoned, sometimes left exposed to the elements and other hazards.
Tuesday, a 23-year-old man was charged in connection with leaving his two-month-old son in an infant-seat placed in the travel lane of a Maryland road on Dec. 12. During Thanksgiving week, a newborn boy was discovered in a freshly installed nativity display at a church in New York City's Queens borough.
