Massachusetts Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative News

It all starts with a $20 to $30 purchase. That’s the average street price of heroin today, according to Framingham, Massachusetts, Police. But if that one purchase is a bad batch, too strong, or if the user injects too much, …

In the past six months alone, Kevin MacLean of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, has seen more drug-overdose deaths on the streets than he did in the previous five years. “In 2015, we’re going to be shocked by the numbers,” said MacLean, who …