Treating Addiction
Telegram & Gazette
Date: 8/9/16
Law enforcement, for many years, has had the ability to detain intoxicated individuals if police determined that they represented a danger to themselves or others. Inexplicably, those rules had not been updated to include drug users, even as the ongoing opioid epidemic began to swell throughout the Commonwealth, including in Worcester County where between 2014 and last year the increase in overdose deaths matched or was slightly worse percentage-wise than the state as a whole.
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Charles J. Faris Recovery Center Grand Opening – May 29, 2015
On Friday May 29th, Spectrum Health Systems played host to more than one hundred friends, family, colleagues and alumni, along with state and local officials for the Grand Opening of the newly constructed Charles J. Faris Recovery Center in Westborough, Massachusetts.
