Boston Medical Center’s top executive said the number of people loitering on the campus and using its emergency department for shelter has spiked since the city began clearing out homeless encampments in the Mass and Cass zone.
City Council President Ed Flynn is calling for the Boston Public Health Commission to conduct an investigation, after authorities discovered a 2-year-old boy spent a night in the violent, drug-ridden Mass and Cass zone.
A former state Department of Mental Health police officer recalls the state of Long Island buildings before the shutdown, and what the real rehab price tag could be.
In the ghost town that encompasses a long-shuttered addiction recovery campus on Long Island, city officials see a potential solution to an opioid epidemic that has worsened since the bridge to those services was torn down.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said a new state permit will allow the city to move forward with its years-long plan to tackle the opioid epidemic, by building a bridge out to a future 35-acre addiction-recovery campus on Long Island.