drugs in school

Massachusetts

DeLeo: Student drug talks raise constitutional issues

STATE HOUSE — Sharing the same goal of reducing addiction and drug deaths, leaders in state government differ in their view of a recommendation made by a Senate committee, with Speaker Robert DeLeo questioning its constitutionality. Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, a Leominster Democrat, led a special committee that recommended schools conduct conversations

Massachusetts

Heroin epidemic puts pressure on schools to get antidote

Written by Michelle R. Smith PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The heroin epidemic that has been taking the lives of teenagers for years is creeping into even younger age groups and putting pressure on the nation's schools to keep a fast-acting overdose antidote within reach of every nurse and