Boston will have four vending machines and eight indoor kiosks distributing life-saving Narcan and other harm reduction supplies in another step towards preventing overdose deaths, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Public Health Commission announced Tuesday.
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Fentanyl kingpin gets 22 years
The Boston U.S. Attorney’s office crackdown on fentanyl trafficking netted a 22-year sentence in one case and charged a New York City man with operating a scheme that flooded Greater Boston with multiple kilos of the “deadly poison.”
Massachusetts prisons update substance response policy after guard knocked unconscious
The Department of Correction is rolling out a policy to strengthen its ability to “rapidly and effectively” address the risks that correction officers face when they encounter “potentially hazardous or illicit materials” on the job.
Prison guard who was knocked unconscious shares his ‘scary’ story ‘
Massachusetts prison guard who was knocked unconscious shares his ‘scary’ story: ‘I don’t want this happening to anyone else’
A Massachusetts prison guard was reportedly ‘knocked unconscious’: ‘Enough is enough’
A Massachusetts prison guard was reportedly ‘knocked unconscious’: ‘Enough is enough’
Slew of North Central MA drug cases to be retried, judge rules
A slew of Worcester County drug cases will be allowed to be retried after a judge ruled that “egregious” conduct by the Massachusetts State Police tainted the cases’ investigation and denied defendants’ their right to pursue “vital defenses” at trial.
