opioid

A series of messages aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of opioid abuse will be rolling through New Bedford on buses operated by the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority.

The Greater New Bedford Opioid Task Force Drop-In Center will be open from 6-8 p.m. this Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Pilgrim United Church located at 634 Purchase Street.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police in Massachusetts are testing a new database documenting opioid overdoses they hope will help departments share information in real time and get people into treatment. The database was developed by criminal justice experts Sean Varano at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, and Pam Kelley with Kelley Research Associates in Massachusetts...

NEW BEDFORD - Four people were hospitalized after New Bedford Police say a man, high on drugs, crashed his vehicle into a parked car. New Bedford Police say at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday police responded to the accident near 4275 Acushnet Avenue...

State Representative Antonio Cabral is hosting a public forum Thursday night at the Whaling Museum to help citizens learn how to combat opioid addiction. Rep. Cabral will be joined by members of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and a panel of experts, including New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro and representatives from organizations such as Seven Hills Behavioral Health and Pos

NEW BEDFORD - A 22-year-old woman is dead of an apparent overdose. New Bedford Police responded to the woman's Holly Street home after 4 P.M. Monday and performed CPR on the woman. She was transported to St. Luke's Hospital where she was pronounced dead...

NEW BEDFORD - Staggering totals as New Bedford Police release the number of opioid overdose calls they responded to in 2016. Last year, police reported a total of 679 overdoses, with 42 deaths resulting. That's nearly twice the amount of overdoses in 2015, when police responded to 389 overdoses with 25 deaths...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has released a report, detailing the number of opioid-related deaths the state has seen in the past several years. On the Southcoast, 48 people died in New Bedford in 2015 as a direct result of an opioid overdose...

Another suspected heroin overdose claims the life of a New Bedford man. New Bedford Detective Captain Steven Vicente says the 52-year-old man was found unresponsive in his Beetle Street apartment around 8:30pm Wednesday night. The unidentified man's roommate found him lying on the floor next to his bed...

Opioid deaths are clearly on the rise in Massachusetts and several Southcoast towns are among the those with the highest numbers of them.