region looks to social media to help area youth fight addiction
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region looks to social media to help area youth fight addiction Filed under: drug treatment programs in massachusetts “It's amazing what (area youth are) saying to each other online,” said Shrand, of the Clean And Sober Teens Living Empowered program at High Point Treatment Center in Brockton. “That's what sobriety is. This is not something you're meant to do alone.” ... Read more on Enterprise News Saugus Anti- Drug Coalition forms Filed under: drug treatment programs in massachusetts Study personnel also refer enrollees to drug treatment programs. A worker from the Healthy Streets Outreach Program of Northeast Behavioral Health led the training. She explained how to recognize an opioid overdose and demonstrated ways to respond. Read more on Wicked Local Brockton to get 0K drug grant Filed under: drug treatment programs in massachusetts Two federal studies confirmed what local drug treatment workers and police have been saying: eastern Massachusetts outpaces much of the nation in heroin-fueled emergency room visits and admissions to state treatment programs for painkiller addictions. Read more on Enterprise News FDA: Seventy-five Mass. doctors and facilities received drugs from New England ... Filed under: drug treatment programs in massachusetts Seventy-five Massachusetts doctors, hospital facilities, eye clinics, and rehabilitation centers received drugs in recent months produced by the New England Compounding Center, the Framingham pharmacy under investigation for producing tainted ... Read more on Boston.com
