Middlesex Restoration Center Commission awards crisis diversion pilot to Vinfen

LOWELL — In 2018, the Middlesex Restoration Center Commission started work around a compassionate premise, built on science-based practices, that people suffering from mental illness or substance abuse disorders needed a different approach to the incarceration and hospitalization model that had proved to be both costly and ineffective.

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