Thank you for your ongoing support of our Opioid Task Force! It was great to see so many of you at last month's meeting - highlights from which you will see below.

We wanted to share with you some of the latest relevant headlines, information about our next meeting and an important update about some changes to our task force structure!

As always, if you have anything you'd like to share with the entire task force, feel free to email Lindsay Corcoran at lindsay.corcoran@state.ma.us. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to make sure you're getting the daily updates from our task force and the office.

Joe

After hearing from many of our task force members at the last meeting that they'd like to see committees again, we're planning to bring the committees back! We will spend a portion of our upcoming meeting making sure everyone gets assigned to a relevant committee, but we are looking for committee leaders. Please let us know if you'd be interested in taking on one of these positions!

In our meeting this fall, we heard from Worcester native and New York Times bestselling author Jarrett Krosoczka. Krosoczka is a children's author who also penned (and drew) a graphic memoir about his own experience growing up with a mother addicted to opioids. His story was powerful and a reminder to us all that we must focus on the entire family when addressing the issue of opioid addiction.

Here's a video recap of the latest training we offered with the National Center for Drug Endangered Children. These trainings will continue to be announced in these emails, so be sure to keep an eye on these emails and sign up right away!

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