'He's gone forever': A Somerville family looks back on years of addiction

'He's gone forever': A Somerville family looks back on years of addiction
But according to activists, these deaths are not a new occurrence and are exclamation points on a deeper, decades-old problem Mark McLaughlin, a close friend of Alex Foster's and an outreach worker for Bridge Over Troubled Waters, agreed this is a …
Read more on Wicked Local Sandwich

Vermont Senate hears challenge of opiate treatment
If you're fortunate, half your folks will succeed, but half won't and will come back to have to try again, sometimes, again and again," said Bill Young, the executive director of the Maple Leaf Farm residential drug and alcohol treatment and recovery …
Read more on Tbo.com

Drug overdoses claim more Ohioans
However, heroin-overdose deaths jumped to 680, an increase of nearly 60 percent, according to newly updated annual statistics from the Ohio Department of Health, as reported by 88 county coroners. “These numbers are not … The state is moving to …
Read more on Norwalk Reflector

More Drug Addiction Recovery Statistics Information…