Addiction center fights to stay open in Leominster despite funding cut

1 Feb 2012 at 6:50am
LEOMINSTER -- Chris Dunn readily admits he was shy about crossing the threshold at the Montachusett Addiction Council Center downtown a couple months ago.

Heroin a continuing crisis in Arlington, region

6 Jan 2012 at 3:29pm
Eastern Massachusetts outpaces much of the nation in heroin-fueled emergency room visits and admissions to state treatment programs for painkiller addictions, according to two recent federal reports on substance abuse.

Health authority weighs adding more supervised injection sites

9 Jan 2012 at 11:33pm
Move to ?normalize? such services would collide with law-and-order agenda of the federal Conservative government, which lost its fight over the Insite clinic last year