The effort eases a nuisance, but doesn’t solve the growing problems of addiction and drug use on city streets.An unusual program has cleaned up hundreds of thousands of discarded needles in Boston by buying them from homeless people who collect them from streets and...
RIZE Massachusetts, an independent nonprofit foundation working to end the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, received a $2 million appropriation to support its programs in the state’s fiscal 2022 budget signed into law on July 16 by Gov. Charlie Baker.
By The Patriot Ledger
“The number of dead, the number of orphans, the number of parents burying their adult children because of this misconduct, is staggering,” Michael Morrissey, the Norfolk County District Attorney, said.
RIZE Massachusetts, an independent nonprofit foundation working to end the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, today announced that it has awarded $788,000 to four organizations as part of its Innovations in Anti-Racism to Address the Opioid…
RIZE Massachusetts, an independent nonprofit foundation working to end the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, today announced the creation of the Harm Reduction Training (HaRT) Scholars program and $250,000 in grant support for Master of Social…
Deaths from opioid overdoses increased in Massachusetts during the pandemic, after three years of a steady decline. The rise in deaths is an alarming sign and one that experts say is likely indicative of the harmful impacts the pandemic is having on…
People living with OUD and their allies understand that pathways to recovery are difficult to navigate and can be fraught with stigma and injustice. In addition to the discrimination people in recovery often face, they must also contend with limited…
By Julie Burns, RIZE Massachusetts and Livia Davis, C4 Innovations
“Because of Together in Recovery, I learned how important it is to recognize that the path to recovery is very unique—not just to an individual, but also to each provider and organization, and that we may do things a certain way based on our population…
By The Bay State Banner
Growing up in the Roxbury and South End neighborhoods, Yahaira Lopez is one of many who has cut through Clifford Park to get to Target and Stop & Shop. Now, she can’t bear to walk through it. The last time she did this past year, Lopez was…
By Miriam Komaromy, MD
Mr. J.W. was in the sitting room of the COVID Recuperation Unit in Boston Medical Center (BMC) when I met him. He was a restaurant worker who had lost his job when the surge of COVID infections hit Boston last spring. The friends who rented him…
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