CAB Donates Phones
to Verizon Wireless
CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc.,
a non-profit substance abuse agency, donated its old cell phones to the
Verizon Wireless’ HopeLine® phone recycling program.
Founded in 2001, the Verizon
Wireless HopeLine® Program assists victims of domestic violence by
refurbishing cell phones for no-cost distribution – including 3,000 free
minutes--to domestic-violence programs, or by re-selling the phone parts and
then donating the proceeds to the cause. For women at risk of abuse,
telephone contact can mean the difference between living or dying.
The CAB Health & Recovery Services
donation was spearheaded by Jack Fisher, the agency’s director of
Information Technology.
Individuals, families or companies may
donate cell phones to the HopeLine Program by either dropping off
phones at any Verizon Wireless Communications Store or by contacting the
website,
www.verizonwireless.com/hopeline
 Following our agency's selection as a pilot Narcan
program, our outreach staff are now being trained to educate the public in the
use of the medication kits. We will be doing outreach to families, active (opioid)
drug-users or anyone who needs information and training to use this medication.
The Mass. Department of Public Health is providing technical assistance and the
medication, Narcan. For more information, call 781-592-4477.
Click here for general information about Narcan (naloxone) medication kits:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21600008
Also, the article below gives additional information on how opioid drug users
may be saved from fatal overdose.
The Mass. Department of Public Health has selected
CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc. as one of four statewide pilot sites for an
innovative Narcan program. The program aims to reverse fatal drug overdoses.
In the physician-supervised pilot program, counselors will educate, train and
engage families and opiate (heroin and Oxycontin) drug users around getting into
detox or treatment. And, failing that, it will provide training and provide
doses of nasal Narcan, which blocks the effects of the opiate drugs (heroin or
Oxycontin) and allows someone who is overdosing to breath again. In a similar
Boston-city project, the Narcan pilot program has enrolled 300 clients and has
resulted in a reported 50 drug overdoses being reversed.
The CAB Narcan outreach program is open to everyone on the North Shore—including
family-education nights to teach the signs of drug use and how to prevent death.
Other selected pilot sites include Northampton, Provincetown, and New Bedford.
Boston and Cambridge is already operating similar programs.
The problem of opiate overdose in the Commonwealth is real. Between 1990 and
2005, the number of fatal overdoses rose from 100 to 544. Other articles on the
program are here:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/
For more information, call 781-592-4477 or e-mail us at
info@cabhealth.org
 Call and request our bright new brochure!
We have just published a colorful new brochure to tell you more about our
various programs. The brochure is now available in Spanish. To
order the brochure or to gain any other information on our programs, call
978-968-1700.
What's Dr. Michael Levy saying this week?
Dear Dr. Levy:
My son is 24 years old, addicted to heroin, and has been detoxed many, many
times. I sometimes think that he will never stop using, a thought which bothers
me so much. Do you have any ideas about what he can do to stop? Going in and out
of detoxes just doesn’t seem to be working. Thanks.
First, I just want to say how painful this situation must be for you. One of
the hardest things parents experience is when they see their child struggling
and there isn’t much that a parent can do to turn it around. Regarding your son,
based upon what you said, it doesn’t sound like going in and out of
detoxification programs is working, which is true for many people who struggle
with heroin use...
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