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READ WBUR: WORKING GROUP RECOMMENDS MORE POLICE AND A NEW 'RECOVERY' COURT FOR 'MASS AND CASS'
READ WBUR: WORKING GROUP RECOMMENDS MORE POLICE AND A NEW 'RECOVERY' COURT FOR 'MASS AND CASS'
The working group says their recommendations will address drug use and homelessness in the neighborhood. But some are concerned the proposed steps signal an increasingly punitive approach and that there are not adequate resources to implement them.
TAKE ACTION: STOP THE SWEEPS!: TOOLKIT
TAKE ACTION: STOP THE SWEEPS!: TOOLKIT
TAKE ACTION: HOUSE KEYS NOT HANDCUFFS BOSTON TOOLKIT!
TAKE ACTION: HOUSE KEYS NOT HANDCUFFS BOSTON TOOLKIT!
Stand Against the City of Boston’s Criminalization Of Unhoused Communities & war on people who use drugs!
TAKE ACTION TO STOP SUFFOLK REGIONAL LOCKUP & END CENTRAL BOOKING: TOOLKIT
TAKE ACTION TO STOP SUFFOLK REGIONAL LOCKUP & END CENTRAL BOOKING: TOOLKIT
READ WGBH: BOSTON MAYOR SAYS POLICE WILL INCREASE ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC DRUG USE LAWS.
READ WGBH: BOSTON MAYOR SAYS POLICE WILL INCREASE ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC DRUG USE LAWS.
Mayor Michelle Wu announced new efforts to increase police enforcement around congregate drug use at a press conference in Downtown Boston on Wednesday.
READ WGBH: TENT ENCAMPMENTS ARE NOW BANNED IN BOSTON. HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT MASS AND CASS
READ WGBH: TENT ENCAMPMENTS ARE NOW BANNED IN BOSTON. HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT MASS AND CASS
City workers took down 75 tents in the area.
READ GBH: HOMELESS ADVOCATES QUESTION NEW JAIL LOCKUP FOR PEOPLE ARRESTED NEAR MASS & CASS AND OUR LETTER
READ GBH: HOMELESS ADVOCATES QUESTION NEW JAIL LOCKUP FOR PEOPLE ARRESTED NEAR MASS & CASS AND OUR LETTER
Advocates criticized city leaders for a lack of transparency around what they say is a legally tenuous process.
MBF & MAAP STATEMENT & CALL TO ACTION: SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE, STUDENT ENCAMPMENTS & OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS
MBF & MAAP STATEMENT & CALL TO ACTION: SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE, STUDENT ENCAMPMENTS & OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS
Solidarity with Palestine, student encampments and unhoused neighbors Realities of unhoused communities in Boston In October of 2023, Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration cruelly passed a “camping” ban and expanded surveillance and criminalization of unhoused people in what the Material Aid & Adv...
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ATTEND A MAAP OVERDOSE PREVENTION & RESPONSE TRAINING (NEXT: NOV 3, 2025)
ATTEND A MAAP OVERDOSE PREVENTION & RESPONSE TRAINING (NEXT: NOV 3, 2025)
TAKE ACTION TO PASS OPC IN MA: SIFMA NOW! OPC TOOLKIT
TAKE ACTION TO PASS OPC IN MA: SIFMA NOW! OPC TOOLKIT
READ WGBH: MA LEGISLATORS NIX OVERDOSE PREVENTION CENTER BILL
READ WGBH: MA LEGISLATORS NIX OVERDOSE PREVENTION CENTER BILL
“It’s an act of political cowardice,” one advocate told GBH News.
READ SIFMA NOW! STATEMENT ON #MAPOLI DROPPING OPC FROM SUD LEGISLATION
READ SIFMA NOW! STATEMENT ON #MAPOLI DROPPING OPC FROM SUD LEGISLATION
The MA legislature again fails to authorize overdose prevention centers as thousands of Massachusetts residents continue to die each year of preventable overdose. December 18, 2024 At least 14,874 people in MA have died of preventable overdose since overdose prevention center (OPC) legislat...
READ WBUR: MASS HEALTH DEPT SAYS STATE NEEDS CONTROVERSIAL OVERDOSE PREVENTION CENTERS
READ WBUR: MASS HEALTH DEPT SAYS STATE NEEDS CONTROVERSIAL OVERDOSE PREVENTION CENTERS
A report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health endorses overdose prevention centers where staff are on hand, if needed, to revive clients who use drugs. The report was released in conjunction with the latest statewide overdose death numbers. They showed virtually no change in the record-setting high count of fatal overdoses Massachusetts posted six months ago.
READ THE HARVARD CRIMSON: PREVENTING PREVENTABLE DEATH IN CAMBRIDGE'S OVERDOSE CRISIS
READ THE HARVARD CRIMSON: PREVENTING PREVENTABLE DEATH IN CAMBRIDGE'S OVERDOSE CRISIS
But the opioid overdose crisis is of course a public health problem — as well as a medical, urban planning, and legal problem. That multidimensional epidemic has only been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, and responding to it will require the concentrated efforts of every segment of society. Harvard is no exception.
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