 Into Light Exhibition Includes Forums, Gallery Walks to Highlight Substance AbuseThirty portraits are on display at Hotel Downstreet, part of an initiative to use the arts and storytelling to humanize substance abuse disorder.  Tobacco-Free Partnership Hosting Youth Vaping Conference SaturdayThe Berkshire Tobacco Free Community Partnership Program is hosting a conference on Saturday at the Stationery Factory in Dalton that will look at how to deter youth from vaping but listen to them as well.  'Safe Haven' Facility Coming to PittsfieldThe facility will employ a "housing first" model to provide an alternative to shelter placement. Clarksburg Joining Drug Prevention CoalitionThe Select Board has agreed to join a collaborative effort for drug prevention and harm reduction.  Opioid Summit Highlights Collaboration, Stigma BreakingCombating the opioid crisis depends on collaboration and smashing the stigma around substance use disorder, local agencies say. |
