Substance Use and Recovery Services

Living In Recovery, supported by ServiceNet, hosted an Overdose Awareness Day Memorial and Vigil on August 31 in Pittsfield, MA. The event included a candlelight vigil and 62 seconds of [...]

By CHRIS LARABEE Staff Writer Thursday, January 13th, 2022 The Opioid Task of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region and the North Quabbin Community Coalition partnered to host a […]

BY KAREN BROWN NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA JANUARY 3RD, 2022 When someone is diagnosed with schizophrenia — a psychotic disorder marked by delusional thinking — they often experience fear and […]

BY AMY TIMMINS DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 In 2019, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death overall in the United States, claiming the lives of more than […]

by: Jillian Andrews NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and there’s a local organization that is offering its services to people in our region. The [...]

BY ANITA FRITZTHE GREENFIELD RECORDER FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2021 As the weekend approached with the prediction of low single-digit temperatures into Sunday, the Opioid Task Force of Franklin [...]

Posted Wednesday, June 19, 2019 5:30 pm By Haven Orecchio-Egresitz, The Berkshire Eagle PITTSFIELD — For those overcoming addiction, Friday nights can be hard. Even after being [...]

BY TIFFANY TAN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 2018 MASSLIVE Berkshire County’s first peer-led addiction recovery center opened in Pittsfield Friday afternoon, the state’s only recovery [...]

BY LARRY PARNASS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 2018 THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE PITTSFIELD — Each month, more than 700 people find their way to a building in the city’s Westside neighborhood. They […]

After graduate school in the early 1980s, I was hired as clinical coordinator of an outpatient methadone and counseling program at Cambridge Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University. Frankly [...]