opiates

There's a local quilt from Fall River that is honoring those who have lost there lives to the ever growing opioid overdose problem here on the Southcoast.

Eight people have been arrested after drug raids on New Bedford fishing boats. National, state, and local law enforcement officials conducted a two-day drug search operaton on New Bedford's waterfront, seizing heroin and opiates that fishermen were intending to use at sea...

There are a lot of things to be proud of here in New England, but a new statistic released by the Boston Globe is certainly not one of them.