by Jason Langevin | Jul 12, 2018 | opioid addiction, opioid epidemic
The silent, unseen victims of the opioid crisis are the children of those battling addiction, the “opioid orphans” who bounce from foster homes to facilities in search of their forever homes. The Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield helps many children...
by Jason Langevin | Jul 10, 2018 | drug diversion, medication disposal, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic
The silent, unseen victims of the opioid crisis are the children of those battling addiction, the “opioid orphans” who bounce from foster homes to facilities in search of their forever homes. The Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield helps many children...
by Jason Langevin | Jul 10, 2018 | In the News
Whatcom County ‘greatly impacted’ by prescription drug abuse WHATCOM — The county is suing the largest manufacturers of prescription opioids in the country. A federal lawsuit, filed on June 27 by the county Prosecutor’s Office, asks for damages from pharmaceutical...
by Jason Langevin | Jul 5, 2018 | In the News
The federal government’s top disease fighter, who built his career battling the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, says the opioid epidemic will be even worse. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has dubbed the...
by Jason Langevin | Jul 3, 2018 | In the News
At home in the village of Holley, not a single day goes by that Tammi Bale can forget the night she lost her son. “March 10th, 2016 I got a phone call about 11 o’clock at night—actually a text saying call me, Bob is dead,” she said. Her son, Robert Bale,...
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