Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Spring 2016
    • Accommodating Transgender
    • All in: Indian Gaming
    • Alone with Food Allergies
    • A Way to Innocence
    • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
    • Millennials Move In
    • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
    • Robotics: On a Limb
    • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
    • Staying on Pointe
    • Surviving Intimate Trauma
    • Two Homelands, One Love
  • Spring 2015
    • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
    • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
    • Boston 2024 Olympics
    • #BostonFitnessFads
    • Boston Mindfulness
    • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
    • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
    • Families Serving Time
    • Fueling the Future
    • Helping the Homeless
    • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
    • Mobile Language Learning
    • Overdose Oversight
    • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
    • Robots Among Us
    • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
    • Styling Beantown
    • Tackling Combat Sports
    • The Algorithm Revolution
    • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
    • Toxic Nails
    • Wanted: More Women Leaders
    • World-Class Boston?
  • Spring 2014
    • Big Effect of Small-time Football
    • Bike Friendly Boston
    • Birth: Au Naturale
    • Bottle Bill Battle
    • Coastal Conversion
    • Deportation: Brink of Separation
    • Gay, Young and Homeless
    • Girls, STEM and Startups
    • HIV Positive Outlook
    • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
    • Lost at 18
    • Nutrition Literacy
    • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
    • Reviving the Written Word
    • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
    • Vinyl’s Comeback?
  • Archive
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Overdose Oversight

Massachusetts has seen an unprecedented number of opiate and heroin overdoses over the past 10 years. Over 1,000 people died in 2014. It has spread throughout the entire state, from Greenfield to Boston to Haverhill, regardless of demographic. As a result, there is a demand for action on all fronts, citing a lack of treatment beds, peer and psychiatric support groups and in-school, preventative programs. Organizations have been created to help those deal with the loss of loved ones and others to help those suffering with addiction get help. The epidemic is growing and evolving, heroin is becoming more deadly. Most say it will get worse before it gets better. In the spring of 2014, Gov. Deval Patrick declared the opioid problem a public health emergency and allocated $10 million towards new programs and facilities. New Governor Charlie Baker, has created a working group comprised of health experts and state officials to devise a course of action. The state is fighting to keep up.

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Matthew Rogers of Haverhill, holding a picture of his brother, Scott, who passed away from an overdose in November of 2014.

Struggling to find treatment beds for those struggling with addiction

May 4, 2015 Carl Mueller 0

Matt Ganem’s job is to find beds for those seeking help with addiction, yet most times there aren’t any available.

Providing addiction recovery support through Facebook

May 4, 2015 Carl Mueller 0

Facebook groups and pages like #TakingHaverhillBack have been able to provide critical peer support to recovering addicts and families.

How addiction stigma is affecting quality of treatment

May 2, 2015 Carl Mueller 0

Despite laws that require equal treatment for substance addiction and physical ailments alike, those suffering with addiction feel left behind.

About the Author

  • Carl Mueller


    Carl Mueller is a multimedia journalist and graduate student at Emerson College. He has previously worked at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. Carl prides himself on being able to cover a wide variety of stories through multiple mediums including video, data visualization and writing. Holding an undergraduate degree in political science, Carl takes a particular interest in urban affairs, environmental policy and international relations.

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