Some people with substance use disorders have been arrested while waiting in line for treatment, which the mayor-elect said "would be unacceptable."

Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts, told Boston Public Radio on Tuesday the city should be making a housing-first effort, not evicting people and offering temporary shelter or involuntarily committing them to live in a detention center, as proposed by Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins.

A man arrested during a clearing of the homeless encampment at the Mass and Cass corridor in Boston was denied medical treatment for substance use disorder and instead was detained overnight in a correctional facility in Worcester that has an ongoing outbreak of COVID-19.

A state judge in California ruled late Monday that four drug companies can't be held liable for that state's opioid epidemic. Communities had hoped for…

Two of three defendants seen by a judge Monday were not allowed access to formal detox facilities.

“We know that criminalizing addiction, criminalizing mental health and criminalizing poverty does not work, it has never worked."

“You don’t want somebody to die on you,” Healey said.

“If in fact we spent our governmental dollars in front of the curve rather than behind the curve, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.”

The multibillion-dollar bankruptcy settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family is grounded in an opioid crisis that has injured or killed an…

Rhode Island recently became the first state to authorize such sites, often known as safe-injection sites.