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Brockton Man Pleads Guilty To Role In Fentanyl Trafficking Operation
A Brockton man pleaded guilty last week to his role in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy around Weymouth and Quincy. Neylton…
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Providence Man Gets Six Years In Prison For Oxycodone Dealing
A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison or selling oxycodone pills on multiple occasions to an…
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Rhode Island Drug Overdose Deaths Plateaued Last Year
The drug epidemic did not get better or worse in the Ocean State in 2022. Rhode Island saw a nearly equal amount…
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Drug Overdose Deaths Caused By Stimulus Checks In Vermont and New Hampshire
In Vermont and New Hampshire, people used their stimulus checks on drugs. Some of them died. That's what Cynthia Seivwright,…
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No ‘Clean Needles’ for Heroin Addicts Across from Church; From A Van, Instead
The AIDS Support Group has abandoned plans to provide clean needles to heroin users at a building next to a residential neighborhood…
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Breast Milk Bust: Bangor Baby Ingests Meth, Nursing Mom Arrested
A 20-year-old Bangor woman faces felony charges after she passed methamphetamine through her breast milk to her 7-month-old…
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Battling Drug Crisis, NH Fire Dept. Launching “Mobile Opioid Response Unit”
WMUR is reporting the capital city fire department is launching a new "mobile opioid response unit" that will follow ambulances…
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Four Middle School Students Get Sick After Eating Marijuana-Laced Chocolates
Four middle-school students in Plaistow, New Hampshire got sick after eating chocolates laced with marijuana that one of the children brought…
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Eight Opioid Deaths Over Three Days in Waltham
Waltham police say they have seen a surge in opioid overdoses, including eight deaths over a three-day period. Officers have used…
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Police Chief Discusses Daughter’s Arrest on Heroin Dealing Charge
The 31-year-old daughter of the chief of police in Berlin, New Hampshire was arrested by state police in northern New…
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Commercial Robberies Up Sharply, Linked To Opioid Crisis
Cambridge has seen an increase of 75 percent in bank robberies and convenience store holdups in 2017 over last year, which police…
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Nashua Eyeing ‘Recovery Coach’ Position for Drug Addicts
Aldermen in the southern New Hampshire city are trying to deal with the opioid catastrophe. The $42,000-a-year position would…
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Father, Brother of Overdose Victim Attack Drug Go-Between, May Get Off Light
The two western Massachusetts men had just learned of the death of their 32-year-old daughter and sister (respectively), and they…
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An Overdose Family, From the Inside
Traci Sodoyer, of Raymond, New Hampshire, lost two children in their 20s to drug overdoses. One, in 2011, had cocaine and methadone…
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Funeral Director Tired of Drug Carnage Displays a Coffin With a Syringe Outside City Hall
A well-dressed mannequin with a mirror for a face lies inside the coffin, so that drug users who walk up and…
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Increase Marijuana Tax To Fund Drug Addiction, Sheriffs Say
Two sheriffs from western Massachusetts called for increasing a planed 12 percent tax on marijuana sales to 17 percent, and using the…
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23 Overdose on Opioids in Fall River During First 10 Days of January
Two died. Fall River has seen increases in opioid overdoses every year since 2012. http://www.heraldnews.com/news/20170111/fall-rivers-…
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Pot campaign knocked for fundraising appeal that cited opioid overdoses
STATE HOUSE — A fundraising appeal from the marijuana legalization campaign has drawn the ire of health care professionals and parents of children…
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‘Can’t find any heroin anymore’
State Rep. Randy Hunt was casually flippant — but with an intentionally serious undertone — when he imagined the day when constituents would call…
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Opioid battle takes a new direction thanks to local police
BOSTON – As opioids are killing Massachusetts residents at an alarming rate, the state's top leaders like Republican Gov. Charlie Baker…
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Bay State steps up fight against drug abuse epidemic
BOSTON – Massachusetts is rising up against drug addiction after deaths due to heroin and painkiller dependency climbed 8 percent over the past…
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Prince died of opioid overdose, tests reportedly show
CHICAGO (AP) — Tests show that Prince died of an opioid overdose, a law-enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. The…
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Marijuana may help break addiction to painkillers, heroin
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued lawmakers and…
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Prince battled painkiller addiction, help sought too late
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince's representatives arranged for the musician to meet a California doctor to help him kick an addiction to…
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Ayotte welcomes Obama’s turn to drug abuse fight
MANCHESTER, N.H. – When President Barack Obama turned his attention last week to the opioid and heroin overdose epidemic that has ravaged…
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Most Bay State employers oppose legal pot sales
BOSTON – Almost two-thirds of Bay State employers oppose legalizing retail marijuana sales, according to the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, one of…
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Most Americans see illegal drugs as a big problem
LYNN, Mass. (AP) – Sharon Johnson calls herself an addict, although she's been sober for three years now. She started by…
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Hospitals report a surge in opioid abuse cases
BOSTON – Opioid-related hospital visits are "skyrocketing" in Massachusetts, with heroin-related cases tripling from 2007 to 2014, according to…
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Bill targeting opioid abuse heads to governor’s desk
BOSTON – Massachusetts will become the first state in the nation to allow partial fills of painkiller prescriptions, patients will be empowered to…
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Opioid compromise passes House, heads to Senate
BOSTON – A compromise measure to rein in the opioid abuse crisis passed unanimously in the state House of Representatives Wednesday and is…
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Pot initiative poses risks, no tax gain, Senate group says
BOSTON – A group of state lawmakers outlined an approach to marijuana legalization Tuesday that would involve the Legislature tinkering with a voter-…
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Pot legalization debated by Bay State lawmakers
BOSTON – In what one observer described as "the eruption, at long last, of the first-ever public debate about marijuana in…
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Warren-Clark bill would permit partial filling for opioids
BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, both Massachusetts Democrats, introduced a bill in Congress on Wednesday…
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House bill would allow drug testing for food stamps
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key House Republican is renewing a GOP push to allow drug tests for low-income food stamp recipients, a…
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Young, white Americans are addicted to this (and what Catholics should do about it)
Providence, R.I. (National Catholic Register) — When recent headlines marked a spike in drug overdoses for white, middle-class Americans, the news…
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Baker calls again for charter expansion, opioid abuse solution
BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker used his first State of the State speech to appeal for bipartisanship in solving ongoing challenges in…
