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By adamg - 11/16/15 - 7:22 am

WBUR posts statistics from Boston EMS about responses to drug overdoses in the city - with the odd fact that most overdose deaths happen between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

By adamg - 11/12/15 - 3:29 pm

A Dedham pediatrician and a Sharon psychiatrist will pay nearly $446,000 in restitution and fines to settle allegations they charged patients for access to a drug aimed at battling their drug addiction that the state required be provided for free. Read more.

By adamg - 11/3/15 - 7:40 am

WBUR reports on the plans by Boston Health Care for the Homeless for "a room with a nurse, some soft chairs and basic life-saving equipment" at Mass. Ave. and Albany Street, which has become an epicenter of the city's opiate crisis:

Gaeta says she and her colleagues are desperate to offer an option for the people they see overdose every day, whom they must sometimes step over to get into the program’s clinic.

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