September has arrived. For some, it signifies the end of the Summer and the typical “vacation” coming to an end. It signifies new beginnings. The Fall encroaches as people are catapulted out of Labor Day weekend into a vocational frenzy. For those of us at MOAR, along...

Opponents of legalizing marijuana in Massachusetts are launching their first television advertisement Tuesday, a powerful 30-second spot that imagines an almost dystopian neighborhood overrun by pot shops and stoners.

In the ad, a mother drives her daughter through a fa...

Lawyers, parents attack use of small-time drug offenders as confidential informants for law enforcement

Rachel Hoffman, 23, was caught by police with five ounces of marijuana and a few ecstasy and Valium pills. The authorities offered her a deal: they wouldn't charge h...

• A new collaboration partners police with treatment providers to get overdose survivors into immediate treatment. ...

Naloxone Hydrochloride, also known as Narcan, is a nasal spray used as an antidote for opiate drug overdoses. (Image courtesy: CBS News)

TAUNTON (CBS) — A proposal from the superintendent to equip school nurses with the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan has the full...

OxyContin, designed for cancer pain relief, became the drug prescribed for back and tooth aches.

About two years ago, I needed laparoscopic surgery to have my gall bladder removed. Nothing serious; preventative, after a few benign bulges were found on the bladder duri...

"The opioid crisis is spiraling out of control."

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The senior senator from one of the states hit hardest by heroin and opioid abuse will call on Monday for Congress to spend $600 million immediately to address and curtail the epidemic.

The Opioid and...

LA JOLLA, CA - November 19, 2015 - Heroin use is on the rise in the United States and around the world--accompanied by a significant increase in heroin overdose deaths and risk of HIV transmission from needle sharing.

Now researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (...

Maryanne Frangules, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recover (MOAR) at the Nazzaro Center. (Photo by Conor Finley)

The Nazzaro Center was packed with kids and parents for a family dinner and talk hosted by North End Against Drugs (NEAD...

Stephanie discusses recovering from addiction as part of the State Without StigMA campaign.

“I really felt the stigma of addiction. I mean from everybody. I wouldn’t go to the hospital, just because I knew that as soon as I got there, as soon as they looked at my char...