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THE LAZY BERKSHIRE GARDENER: Week of February 6, 2025

Take photos and review what you do from year to year to learn more about your landscape. That record will make it easier to make pruning, planting, and pest-prevention decisions in the future.

Bits & Bytes: Jackie Wang at Simon’s Rock; ‘Reviving Our Hearts for Justice’; oral history workshops; opioid panel at Williams

'Reviving Our Hearts for Justice: An Interfaith Call to Action' seeks to revive people’s spirits for the work of social justice in the Berkshires and beyond.

Join The Edge: A letter from our publisher

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CONNECTIONS: America’s opiate legacy

For better or for worse, we were always a people who believed in the efficacy of a pill and the power of an elixir to cure what ails us.

Egremont Green News: Police are taking back old meds

Great Barrington police estimate that three to five people a day drop off old meds at their take-back receptacle, which is the size and shape of a mailbox and sits to the right of the window at the police desk.

News Briefs: Health officials release quarterly report on opioid overdose deaths

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's first quarterly opioid report of 2017 showed an increase in opioid-related overdose deaths attributed to fentanyl and declines in the presence of heroin and prescription opioids in opioid-related deaths.

News Briefs: Baker-Polito administration releases opioid epidemic data visualization website

The website is a resource that illustrates and explains the complex nature of the disease of addiction, the role that legal prescription medications and illegal substances play in the epidemic, and its impact across the demographic spectrum in Massachusetts.

Baker-Polito Administration issues analysis of opioid epidemic in Massachusetts 

“Opioid use disorder is a chronic disease, and this epidemic is a complex and persistent problem that will not be solved through a single solution.” --- Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel
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