STATE HOUSE — Continuing to keep his distance from the simmering race for the nation's highest office, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday deflected a radio show host's assertion that his politics are closer to Democrat Hillary Clinton's than to Republican presidential candidates like Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson and Donald Trump.
During an "Ask the Governor" segment, WGBH host Jim Braude twice pressed the idea that Baker, a Republican, may be more ideologically closer to Clinton than GOP candidates. The governor responded by saying he agreed with candidates on some topics and not on others.
BOSTON – Clamping down on opioid drug abuse by limiting quantities of prescribed medication, requiring closer prescription monitoring and giving doctors greater power to hold patients for involuntary treatment are just some of the ways Gov. Charlie Baker wants to ease a crisis that has claimed thousands of Massachusetts lives in the past decade.
In a measure he introduced Thursday, Baker also would improve education targeting young people at risk of becoming abusers, move women committed for detoxification treatment into Taunton State Hospital and out of the Framingham state prison, and strengthen training for medical professionals involved in treatments using opioid drugs such as oxycontin and fentanyl.
