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Massachusetts

Med students, Baker discuss pain management

STATE HOUSE — In the latest attempt to showcase support for his approach to the opioid crisis, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday met with medical students who backed up his effort to codify the teaching of pain management and safe prescribing practices in medical school curriculums. Baker, who plans to testify

Massachusetts

Drug abuse is not a victimless crime

In this increasingly permissive age, we are told that drug abuse is a victimless crime. The Wikipedia entry for "victimless crime" includes "recreational drug use." In July, President Obama commuted the sentences of nearly four dozen men and women convicted of selling drugs (mainly crack or