Boston City TV, MA Recovery Services, 8 Sep 2014

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From YouTube: In Our Own Backyard: A Panel Discussion on the Opiate Epidemic in Massachusetts

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Mayor Walsh is a panelist at the U.S. District Court Opiate Symposium.

A

Our own epidemic that we are facing spans the boundaries of law enforcement, the justice system and the public health community.

B

As a mayor of the city of boston, I have the opportunity really to be able to implement some programs that we can use around massachusetts to fight the drug addiction. But it's not a simple solution. Part.

C

Of what we're trying to do is keep people in treatment, because what we've seen from the scientific literature is that treatment works. If people go we're.

B

Currently, in the process in the city of boston, of working with the blue cross, blue shield foundation and setting up an office of recovery services in the city of boston, and what I really want to do with that office is make it a model for the country.