UMass Dartmouth Launches Campaign to Deter Heroin Use

(Boston Globe, Feb. 8) Administrators at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth are responding to two heroin overdoses within two days. One overdose, which caused the death of a 20-year-old political science major, propeled the university into a campaign to educate the student body about drug abuse. While officials acknowledge that heroin use is widespread nationwide, the fact that it occurred right on campus as well hit a message close to home. READ MORE.