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American Protest: Big Pharma is guilty, but now we must help those suffering on the streets

Meredith Varner October 27, 2020
The fight against the opioid crisis does not end with Purdue Pharma and its admittance to guilt.
Nora Volkow speaks at “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis” Friday with moderator Martha Bebinger and co-panelists Sandro Galea, Samuel Kelton Roberts and Elaine Scarry. SOPHIE PARK/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Center for the Humanities tackles opioid epidemic in interdisciplinary forum

Gigi Wargin October 18, 2018
In a crowded room of people, nearly half the audience raised their hands simultaneously. Some timid and others bold, those with raised hands united in the fact that they had personal connections to the opioid crisis. The audience gathered into the Metcalf Trustee Center ballroom for a discussion Friday night on the opioid crisis and the different approaches to take.
 
Special attention was given to a new study conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center that found a link between marijuana and the abuse of alcohol and drugs because of the growing number of states legalizing medical and recreational cannabis. PHOTO BY LEXI PLINE/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Marijuana usage linked to substance abuse, researchers find

Savannah Wu February 23, 2016

As more states legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use, renewed health policy questions are brought to the forefront. A study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks Wednesday in the Massachusetts Statehouse during the Safe Home Coalition launch in Boston to address prescription drug misuse. PHOTO BY ELAINE ANDERSON/DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Safe Homes Coalition launches to combat medication misue, opioid addiction

Alejandra Jimenez October 1, 2015

  Aiming to reduce the misuse and abuse of prescription medications in the Greater Boston area, anti-drug organization Safe Homes Coalition launched a program Wednesday to help combat the opioid...

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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