Is Wareham Alone Zero Programs RE: Opioids?
This is the biggest bunch of BS to come out of Patrick Tropeano since the last biggest bunch. “Everybody knows I’m big on that whole thing,” he said at Tuesday’s Selectmen meeting. “This is a huge deal.” Tropeano has eight children and said every time someone in town passes away due to an opioid overdose, it brings tears to his eyes.
But he said it’s hard to help rehabilitate addicts with the lack of funds the town has.
“Without money, there’s not much you can do,” he said. “It’s a really difficult situation and I don’t know that anybody’s listening, because people are dying all across the country and nothing is changing.”
Does he not realize we are virtually alone in NOT having any prevention and rehabilitation programs? There there IS money available, but no one is going to knock on his door and offer a check? Here's what's going on in Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/chapter55/
More from the State https://www.mass.gov/massachusetts-responds-to-the-opioid-epidemic
Now, Wareham Wareham Health Department. It even still lists Connie Dolan as our nurse, who left a while back.
How is Project Outreach being implemented in Wareham?
Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/south/2017/01/12/plymouth-county-drug-program-finds-success-tackling-opioid-crisis-head/xz3ofkjSY0E4a9YvGkqKLP/story.html
"POSTED BY: PETER W. TEITELBAUM | Nov 30, 2017 18:51 Wareham Village Soup
Momof2, Selectmen Tropeano and Slavin have been extremely active in the effort to fight opioid abuse and promote treatment for addiction (Selectman Tropeano at the local and regional levels along with Chief Walsh, and Selectman Slavin at the state level in his several roles in the Massachusetts Municipal Association). At our next meeting, I will be sure to instruct them both to start blowing their own horns to drown out this sort of noise."
They are blowing something alright, right at us. There is money, there is talent. There is help, but not for Wareham.
Source: http://www.mass.gov/chapter55/#chapter55
What opioids are and do, in 2 minutes
Look at who is involved in Middleboro Matters and Carver Cares. Everyone from every department and private groups working together. What do we have in common with those two towns? The 2nd Plymouth District State Rep, who has brought us nothing.
Community Collaborative: Middleborough Matters is a substance abuse prevention coalition helping Middleborough mobilize and take action. Mission: Working to mobilize our communities to strategically prevent and reduce substance use and abuse among youth and adults. Goals:Our goals are to provide primary, secondary and tertiary substance abuse prevention resources, education, and increase awareness. http://middleboromatters.org/
Why aren't we in the Plymouth Cluster? http://plymouthcluster.org/
Why aren't we getting grant funding from MassTAPP? http://masstapp.edc.org/
CARA Grants? http://www.cadca.org/comprehensive-addiction-and-recovery-act-cara
SAMHSA? https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-17-014 Take a look at their dozens of programs https://www.samhsa.gov/programs-campaigns
What is the Health Department Director doing about getting something, anything, going here? Oh, a for-profit methadone clinic for after-the-fact.
The whining has to end at Town Hall. Somebody with some vision has to take the reigns, people are dying right here, right now.
But he said it’s hard to help rehabilitate addicts with the lack of funds the town has.
“Without money, there’s not much you can do,” he said. “It’s a really difficult situation and I don’t know that anybody’s listening, because people are dying all across the country and nothing is changing.”
Does he not realize we are virtually alone in NOT having any prevention and rehabilitation programs? There there IS money available, but no one is going to knock on his door and offer a check? Here's what's going on in Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/chapter55/
More from the State https://www.mass.gov/massachusetts-responds-to-the-opioid-epidemic
Now, Wareham Wareham Health Department. It even still lists Connie Dolan as our nurse, who left a while back.
How is Project Outreach being implemented in Wareham?
Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/south/2017/01/12/plymouth-county-drug-program-finds-success-tackling-opioid-crisis-head/xz3ofkjSY0E4a9YvGkqKLP/story.html
"Initially limited to Plymouth, Project Outreach has since expanded to include Carver, Duxbury, Hanover, Kingston, Lakeville, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, and Wareham. Botieri estimated that some 200 people have received follow-up visits like Hachey’s, and plans are in place to have the entirety of Plymouth County included by February or March.
The outreach process kicks in when there’s an overdose resulting in hospitalization in a participating community. If the person who overdosed doesn’t accept treatment, a police officer in plainclothes and a clinician from a treatment facility will follow up with a visit within 24 hours of the overdose -- even if they’re not wanted."
No, we get Tropeano who "didn't know" about the recent vigil" and is waiting for a check to arrive."POSTED BY: PETER W. TEITELBAUM | Nov 30, 2017 18:51 Wareham Village Soup
Momof2, Selectmen Tropeano and Slavin have been extremely active in the effort to fight opioid abuse and promote treatment for addiction (Selectman Tropeano at the local and regional levels along with Chief Walsh, and Selectman Slavin at the state level in his several roles in the Massachusetts Municipal Association). At our next meeting, I will be sure to instruct them both to start blowing their own horns to drown out this sort of noise."
They are blowing something alright, right at us. There is money, there is talent. There is help, but not for Wareham.
Source: http://www.mass.gov/chapter55/#chapter55
What opioids are and do, in 2 minutes
Look at who is involved in Middleboro Matters and Carver Cares. Everyone from every department and private groups working together. What do we have in common with those two towns? The 2nd Plymouth District State Rep, who has brought us nothing.
Community Collaborative: Middleborough Matters is a substance abuse prevention coalition helping Middleborough mobilize and take action. Mission: Working to mobilize our communities to strategically prevent and reduce substance use and abuse among youth and adults. Goals:Our goals are to provide primary, secondary and tertiary substance abuse prevention resources, education, and increase awareness. http://middleboromatters.org/
Why aren't we in the Plymouth Cluster? http://plymouthcluster.org/
Why aren't we getting grant funding from MassTAPP? http://masstapp.edc.org/
CARA Grants? http://www.cadca.org/comprehensive-addiction-and-recovery-act-cara
SAMHSA? https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-17-014 Take a look at their dozens of programs https://www.samhsa.gov/programs-campaigns
What is the Health Department Director doing about getting something, anything, going here? Oh, a for-profit methadone clinic for after-the-fact.
The whining has to end at Town Hall. Somebody with some vision has to take the reigns, people are dying right here, right now.
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