Opioid crisis creating nonprofit demand
Worcester Business Journal Online
Date: 2/15/15
When Kelly McCausland was teaching yoga and mindfulness at rehabilitation facilities, she had a lot of interactions with patients who believed in their sobriety, only to succumb to their addiction months or even weeks later.
New rehab facility caters to high-end patients
The Boston Globe
Date: 3/22/15
Mornings start with yoga and meditation. Then there's breakfast, the first of three gourmet meals a day. After dinner, a massage helps to calm the mind and muscles before bed.
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.
Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. Opposes the Legalization of Marijuana
Since 1969, Spectrum Health Systems has been dedicated to providing cutting-edge addiction treatment, helping hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve sobriety and reclaim their lives. During this time, we’ve seen first-hand the profound devastation that often occurs as a result of addiction. Consider the following: Marijuana use during adolescence is ...
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.
Opioid Abuse Law Deserves Applause
Governor Baker’s signing of legislation this week to combat the opioid epidemic represents an important step in the fight to end this ongoing tragedy. Today, on average four individuals a day in Massachusetts die from a fatal overdose of opiates. Non-fatal overdoses are as much as three to four times ...
