Healthcare systems have been through a lot in five years. A global pandemic. A reckoning on racial health justice. An ongoing overdose epidemic. It’s been absolutely vital not only for new, innovative approaches and programming from health systems, but also for...
One of the first messages that came from the stage of Boston Medical Center’s Together for Hope: Boston Addiction Conference 2024, was that we were all sitting “in the heart of Boston.” The two-day conference kicked off this morning at Roxbury...
The Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center will host its inaugural two-day conference, Together for Hope: Boston Addiction Conference 2024, on March 15 and 16 at Roxbury Community College in Boston. The conference will bring together researchers,...
Last year, at least 2,310 people died from opioid-related overdoses in Massachusetts, according to state health department figures — and the overdose death rate among non-Hispanic Black residents showed the largest increase over the previous year of any demographic...
The death toll from drug overdoses, particularly opioid overdoses, continues to rise in the U.S. In recent years, the overdose death rate for Black people has increased more than that of any other racial and ethnic group. At the same time, research shows that Black...