Spectrum Health Systems and the Massachusetts Department of Correction Collaborate to Address Opioid Addiction Among Offenders
Spectrum Health Systems will soon receive federal Byrne grant funding through a partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) as part of the state’s Heroin and Opioid Crime Reduction State Initiative. The Department received one of nineteen grants awarded in Massachusetts designed to help district attorneys, sheriffs and other criminal justice agencies combat the ongoing opioid abuse crisis.
Spectrum CEO Addresses Central Mass Community Forum on Addiction
On January 25, 2016, Spectrum's President and CEO Charles J. Faris joined Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. in a community awareness forum at Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS) to discuss the local impact of the opioid epidemic.
