Mass. legislators debate whether to fund addiction programs that lock people up

WBURBy Deborah BeckerApril 21, 2022 Massachusetts lawmakers are debating whether to continue supporting programs that put people inside jails and prisons for addiction treatment. Both Gov. Charlie Baker and the House leadership have proposed setting aside roughly $23 million in the budget for such addiction programs. But State Rep. Ruth Balser has filed budget amendments […]

Health Experts, Medical Providers Urge Health-Centered Approach to Boston’s Addiction Crisis

Health Experts, Medical Providers Urge Health-Centered Approach to Boston’s Addiction Crisis For immediate release: October 6, 2021 (BOSTON) In a letter sent today to public officials and Boston mayoral candidates, public health experts and medical providers urged public officials to take a health-centered approach to the growing humanitarian crisis in the area of Massachusetts Avenue […]

Some advocates and experts push back against sheriff’s Mass. and Cass proposal

SOME ADVOCATES AND EXPERTS PUSH BACK AGAINST SHERIFF’S MASS. AND CASS PROPOSAL The Boston GlobeSeptember 27, 2021By Danny McDonald Some civil rights advocates and public health experts are calling the Suffolk sheriff’s proposal to use one of his buildings as a treatment center to alleviate the suffering in Boston’s Mass. and Cass area deeply misguided […]

Massachusetts Incarcerates Men in the Name of Drug Treatment—Now They’re Suing

Filter March 20, 2019 By Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard A 34-year-old Massachusetts man thought he was going to the Men’s Addiction Treatment Center (MATC), a facility where he had received treatment in the past, for his benzodiazepine and opioid use. Instead, he arrived at a state prison in the middle of a forest near the Massachusetts […]