A former court stenographer is asking a judge to grant her a disability state pension stemming from the accounts of crimes she had to listen to and record.
For 10 years Mary K. Morse heard stories of child abuse, murder, domestic violence, and child pornography while working at Salem Superior Court. The cases depressed her and led her to start drinking heavily again after a previous period of sobriety, according to court documents.
BOSTON (AP) — More than half of the adults entering state-licensed, residential addiction treatment centers in Massachusetts do not complete their treatment programs and one in eight are readmitted within a month of being discharged, according to a new state report.
The findings from a special commission created to study the state's network of treatment centers point to some of the many challenges facing policymakers trying to control a persistent and deadly opioid addiction scourge.
