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Walsh Announces New Substance Abuse Prevention Series BY RICK WINTERSON
IN THIS ISSUE TIS THE SEASON FOR PARADES
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n Tuesday, at BPD Station C-6 Mayor Walsh introduced a community-based series of workshops to help Boston residents in using the City’s substance abuse programs. Drug issues are a top priority in the Mayor’s new administration; this was his first key policy announcement regarding them. Approximately 50 people gathered in the community meeting room at South Boston’s BPD Station C-6 on Tuesday morning. Elected officials, department heads, community activists in substance abuse treatment, and many media were there. The occasion was the announcement by Mayor Martin J. Walsh of a new series of community-based training programs devoted to substance abuse prevention. Recent news regarding substance abuse has been bleak. The South Boston neighborhood has been no exception to that statement. This has impacted everyone: since 2010, overdoses from both heroin and the misuse of prescription drugs have skyrocketed
P4 Mayor Martin J. Walsh announces his new series of substance abuse prevention steps at BPD Station C-6, with BPD Commissioner Bill Evans, BPH Executive Director Barbara Ferrer, City Council President Bill Linehan, and Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry.
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by 40% in the City of Boston. No one is unaffected by this, whether they are victims themselves or have experienced the loss of a friend, co-worker, or loved one. When Mayor Walsh arrived, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, who is the Executive Director of Boston’s Public Health Commission (the BPHC), opened the proP12
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