Enlarge this image Registered nurse Jamie Simmons speaks with a patient during an appointment at the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center…
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Prison For Forced Addiction Treatment? A Parent’s ‘Last Resort’ Has Consequences
by Deborah Becker April 20, 2019Enlarge this image The Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center in Plymouth houses men for court-mandated addiction treatment. Robin Lubbock/WBUR hide caption…
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For One Rural Community, Fighting Addiction Started With Recruiting The Right Doctor
by Bram Sable-Smith December 9, 2018Enlarge this image Located in Northern Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Superior, Ashland, Wis. has had enough of substance abuse issue.…
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Enlarge this image In several European countries and Canada, patients with longterm opioid addiction are prescribed pharmaceutical grade heroin which they inject…
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After An Overdose, Patients Aren’t Getting Treatments That Could Prevent The Next One
by Martha Bebinger June 18, 2018Enlarge this image Yvette and Scott, both recovering heroin users, now take methadone daily from a clinic in the Southend of Boston.…