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When the Recorder first began closely covering the opioid epidemic locally about five years ago, one of the chief complaints was that too few residential rehabilitation programs existed to help the afflicted.
Don't go looking for that pesky 2018 federal farm bill anytime soon. As a matter of fact, it's likely to be 2019 before the bill surfaces again, and even then, it's likely to "beat up on poor people" just about as much as it does now, in the words of Congressman Jim McGovern, who is on the conference committee that's now hammering out differences ... (more)
In this July 23, 2018, photo, nurse Brian Toia holds tabs of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, as he prepares to administer the drug, known also by the brand name Suboxone, to selected inmates at the Franklin County Jail in Greenfield, Mass. American correctional institutions are slowly loosening resistance to giving inmates medication for their opioid addiction.