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Massachusetts pharmacies required to continue providing medication abortion

Valeria Rivera March 30, 2023
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey issued a statement Wednesday that pharmacies statewide  will still be required to stock essential family planning medications, despite national efforts to ban them. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: It’s time to break up with sugar

Bailey Salimes March 17, 2022
In letting go of sugar, you are reducing your chances of meeting obesity later on in life and potentially saving yourself from a myriad of physical and mental health troubles.
coffee cup

Is coffee a placebo at this point?

Veronica Thompson September 30, 2021
I wonder how much of it is all in our heads, a habit that we follow because it’s tradition.
cancerous skin cell

BU researchers discover potential therapeutic agent for melanoma

Caroline Bowden March 9, 2021
BU researchers from the School of Medicine published a paper on the drug YK-4-279 — which could have the potential to treat melanoma in patients.
Miley Cyrus released her studio album “Plastic Hearts” on Friday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: Miley Cyrus’ ‘Plastic Hearts’ takes musical samples and leaps

David Simon November 29, 2020

“Plastic Hearts,” released Friday, represents a return to form for Miley Cyrus. For the past decade, she had cycled genres between albums — from the hip-hop stylings on 2013’s “Bangerz”...

A demonstrator stands in the road at the intersection of Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue protesting the lack of services the City offers to people facing drug addiction. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Neighbors organize Methadone Mile protest

Allison Pirog September 3, 2020
Residents of Roxbury and the South End took to the streets Thursday to express their concerns about Methadone Mile, a stretch of Massachusetts Avenue popular for drug use and dealing.
Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary “The Pharmacist” confronts the U.S. drug addiction epidemic. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: “The Pharmacist” will forever change the definition of documentaries

Madeline Humphrey February 6, 2020
Netflix released their newest true-crime documentary, “The Pharmacist,” which aims to show that drug addiction can affect everyone, illustrating that no one is left unharmed when associated with someone who has a toxic relationship with drugs.
Associate professor at the Boston University School of Medicine Weining Lu was named BU Innovator of the Year for his research on chronic kidney disease. COURTESY OF WEINING LU

School of Medicine professor named BU Innovator of the Year

Nyah Jordan November 19, 2019
Weining Lu, an associate professor in the BUSM, was named BU’s Innovator of the Year Thursday for his work developing a new medicine for chronic kidney disease.
AHOPE, one of the programs part of the Boston Public Health Commission, aims to clean up improperly discarded drug needles littered across parks, playgrounds and streets. COURTESY OF PIXNIO

Boston organizations fight drug crisis by providing a pathway to recovery

Joel Lau September 9, 2019
These organizations offer services ranging from referrals and advice to sober housing and needle exchange.
On Sep. 4, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh spoke at a construction site in the Seaport District as part of the city’s month-long programming for National Recovery Month. Workers observed a moment of silence to honor the 150 out of 100,000 construction workers lost to opioid-related deaths. COURTESY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Walsh’s office to host addiction awareness events for National Recovery Month

Mia Cathell September 5, 2019
These events include opioid overdose reversal trainings, a substance abuse awareness rally, and an interfaith service honoring activists and leaders in addiction recovery.

Increase in ‘Molly’ cases leads to dialogue of drug prevention in Hub

Daily Free Press Admin September 2, 2013

Within days of Brittany Flannigan’s death at the House of Blues after allegedly overdosing on a form of ecstasy known as MDMA, or Molly, more suspected drug overdoses occurred on Saturday at other...

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