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Massachusetts

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 expected to face a final vote in the Senate Thursday. The measure would put limits on first-time prescriptions of synthetic opiate painkillers like oxycodone and use additional screening

Massachusetts

Opioid bill progress may trail Baker’s expectations amid crisis

BOSTON – While Gov. Charlie Baker this week repeatedly cited a daily death toll from the opioid epidemic, Speaker Robert DeLeo, the leader of the state House of Representatives, said he couldn't ensure that a measure to help contain it would be completed any time soon. The state Senate

Elizabeth Warren

Warren eyes legal pot retail sales as a way to curb opiate abuse

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Warren tentatively weighed in on the debate over legalizing marijuana, asking the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the effects of legal access to pot on the rate of deaths from heroin and opioid drug overdoses. The Bay State's senior U.S. Senator

Rhode Island

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 saddened but did not surprise Deacon Timothy Flanigan, an HIV specialist at Brown University medical school in Providence, R.I. Beyond the classroom, Flanigan has directed the HIV care

Massachusetts

Women committed for detox will no longer be sent to prison

STATE HOUSE — Massachusetts women civilly committed for substance abuse treatment will no longer be sent to prison and instead will be referred to one of the 60 new state hospital beds slated to open this year under a law signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday. "For the past

Maura Healey

New state-fed working group will target illegal opioid suppliers

STATE HOUSE — Attorney General Maura Healey will announce the formation of a new state-federal coalition to meet regularly to share information and cooperatively prosecute prescribers, pharmacists and others who illegally supply opioids, according a senior official in the attorney general's office. Healey plans to detail the partnership at

Massachusetts

As 2015 fades out, here are the Bay State’s most memorable moments

BOSTON – Plenty of Massachusetts news was fit to print in 2015. Here's our take on the 10 biggest Bay State stories of the year, in chronological order:

Massachusetts

Patients who overdose on opioids get them again, study shows

BOSTON – Most patients who receive drugs to treat chronic pain and overdose on opioid medications still get the addictive synthetic opiates through their doctors, a new study shows. The 12-year study released Monday by the Boston Medical Center tracked almost 3,000 people who were treated in an emergency room