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person holding a narcan demonstration device

Seven North Shore cities encourage residents to carry Narcan

Sam Trottenberg April 2, 2021
A new campaign seeks to curb opioid overdoses through education and increased access to medication.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: Decriminalization, legalization of all drugs are best ways forward

Max Ferrandino October 13, 2020
I would say yes to both legalization and decriminalization — either will be better than the current system of drug enforcement. Even very addictive and dangerous drugs such as heroin and fentanyl should be legalized and regulated.
Blackstone Square in Boston’s South End. The concentration of opioid users may lead to the installation of new cameras in the neighborhood. CONOR KELLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Push for installation of police-monitored surveillance cameras near BUMC

Matthew Sensabaugh September 26, 2019
The proposal seeks to install 40 new surveillance cameras along Massachusetts Avenue near the Boston University Medical Campus. This comes after a recent stabbing in the area resulted in one arrest and one death.
English pop rock band The 1975 perform at Bilbao Live in Bilbao, Spain in July 2014. The band released its junior album, “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships,” Friday. COURTESY OF BEGOÑA/ FLICKR

REVIEW: The 1975 experiments in new album ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’

Austin Pak December 2, 2018
After scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in 2016 with their album, “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it,” The 1975 returned with their third studio album, “A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.”

City Crime Logs: Feb. 9-11

Eleanor Ho February 15, 2018

  The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Feb. 9-11. Suspect uses counterfeit $100 bill to buy pizza An officer responded to a larceny report...

Campus Crime Logs: Oct. 1- Oct. 4

Campus Crime Logs: Oct. 1- Oct. 4

Kennedy Davis October 8, 2015

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department from Oct. 1 to 4. Bicycle stolen from 775 Commonwealth Ave. A male student reported Oct. 1 that his bike was stolen from...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh's office partnered with the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation to release a report Wednesday for the Mayor's Office of Recovery Services that found an 11.3 percent substance abuse prevalence in Boston. GRAPHIC BY KATELYN PILLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

City report evaluates substance addiction, recovery services in Boston

Julia Metjian May 22, 2015

To assess the prevalence of drug abuse and addiction in the city, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh joined the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation Wednesday to release a report that will serve...

There was a spike in heroin overdoses and deaths in Massachusetts in December 2014. GRAPHIC BY KATELYN PILLEY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts sees spike in heroin overdoses, deaths

Gabriela Arriaga February 5, 2015

Ten months after former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s declaration of a public health emergency in March 2014 to combat opiate abuse, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health saw a spike in...

EDIT: A Deadly Deal

EDIT: A Deadly Deal

Editors September 29, 2014

When caught by the campus police selling LSD and Molly, a University of Massachusetts Amherst student by the name of “Logan” was given an offer he couldn’t refuse. In exchange for becoming a campus...

EDIT: Heroin in pop culture

Daily Free Press Admin February 4, 2014

Let’s ask ourselves this — before Philip Seymour Hoffman allegedly overdosed on heroin this Sunday, were we paying attention to the 37 lives that heroin claimed in Maryland in the last six months?...

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