Spectrum’s Faris retiring as president, CEO in Worcester
Worcester Magazine
Date: 2/17/16
Chuck Faris joined Spectrum Health Systems as a counselor in 1971, not long after the start of a new decade. Now, 45 years later, and a little more than halfway through the second decade of a new century, he is calling an end to a career that saw him rise all the way to the top.
Isaacson named new president of Spectrum Health Systems
Worcester Magazine
Date: 4/26/16
Kurt Isaacson has been named the new president and CEO of Spectrum Health Systems.
Fentanyl fuels rise in deaths from opioid overdoses
The Boston Globe
Date: 8/3/16
More than ever, the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is claiming lives in Massachusetts, fueling an overdose death toll that continues to rise, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health.
Treating Addiction
Telegram & Gazette
Date: 8/9/16
Law enforcement, for many years, has had the ability to detain intoxicated individuals if police determined that they represented a danger to themselves or others. Inexplicably, those rules had not been updated to include drug users, even as the ongoing opioid epidemic began to swell throughout the Commonwealth, including in Worcester County where between 2014 and last year the increase in overdose deaths matched or was slightly worse percentage-wise than the state as a whole.
