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State must combat addiction epidemic

The Massachusetts Health Council’s report cited the devastation of lives lost to fatal opioid overdoses in Massachusetts. We know too well that drug use is an epidemic (“Report warns of drug use in state,” Metro, Nov. 14).

There is no magic cure. However, Massachusetts recently passed a Good Samaritan law featuring two important public health policies.

Comments

So why do we add another hallucinogen to the list? We all know that weed will migrate from those for whom it was intended, to recreational use. I sense another state agency in the offing.