6:00 – 8:30 pm, Making Massachusetts #1 for Prevention, Treatment and Recovery
Opening Speakers: Senator Edward Augustus, Senate Ways and Means Committee Member; Ray Kosinski, MA DPH, Substance Abuse Services, Central MA Director, MA Strategic Plan in Action.
HBO’s Addiction: ‘Saturday Night in Dallas’ Emergency Room segment: Learn about Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Massachusetts; Meet The Heywood and Athol Hospital Team.
A Prevention Response: Barbara Harrington, Executive Director, MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
HBO’s ‘Insurance Woes’ – End Insurance Discrimination: Denise Devlin, Faces & Voices of Recovery federal action; Paul Kusiak, MOAR parent member, MA action.
End Criminal Offender Record Discrimination: Horace Small, (MARC), MA Alliance to Reform CORI & Steve O’Neill, (EPOCA), Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement.
Speaking Up for Pathways to Prevention and Recovery: Connie Peters, MHSACM and MCAS, MA Coalition for Addiction Services.
MOAR – Moving from Awareness to Action!
