Region Looks to Social Media to Help Area Youth Fight Addiction

region looks to social media to help area youth fight addiction

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“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.” …
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Saugus Anti-Drug Coalition forms

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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.
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Brockton to get 0K drug grant

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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.
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FDA: Seventy-five Mass. doctors and facilities received drugs from New England …

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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 …
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