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Drug disaster is not only a Boston drawback
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Drug disaster is not only a Boston drawback

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Last updated: July 10, 2025 7:41 am
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We’ve bought a drug drawback within the Bay State, and the time for NIMBY is over.

The relentless disaster at Mass and Cass ebbs and flows as town initiates sweeps and applications and outreach efforts, solely to see sellers and addicts return. The issue has spilled to different, equally annoyed neighborhoods.

But regardless of the addict inhabitants hailing from Massachusetts cities and cities outdoors of Boston, it’s Hub taxpayers who’re tasked with funding fixes.

No extra, says Boston Metropolis Councilor John FitzGerald.

He launched a listening to order at yesterday’s council assembly “concerning the creation of a regional substance use dysfunction and psychological well being fund” that might shift right this moment’s “city-alone mannequin” to a regional cost-sharing method.

Good luck with that.

It’s a good suggestion, a wise thought. However we already had a style of “not in my yard” makes an attempt to keep away from sharing the burden.

4 years in the past, Performing Mayor Kim Janey wished to hire lodge rooms in Revere to homeless folks residing on Mass and Cass. Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo was not on board.

“Municipal leaders who say that we have to do that work as a area however who fail to take accountability in their very own metropolis or city could also be making a very good sound chew. However, it doesn’t resolve the issue,” Janey stated in an announcement.

The plan by no means got here to fruition, and FitzGerald is taking one other shot at a regional alliance method.

“This isn’t only a Boston disaster — it’s a regional one,” FitzGerald stated. “Most of the people at Mass and Cass aren’t from Boston, but it’s Boston taxpayers who’re bearing the total monetary burden.”

That dynamic is “not honest,” Fitzgerald stated, and it’s “not sustainable.”

No, it isn’t. Sadly it’s extra handy for our neighbors to see Boston as having the lion’s share of the issue, regardless of the precise make-up of the Mass and Cass inhabitants. Issues that occur in Boston, keep in Boston.

That mindset helps nobody.

FitzGerald stated he envisions a regional fund with contributions from neighboring communities, to make sure that Larger Boston cities and cities that profit from Boston’s dependancy and housing companies additionally assist to select up the tab.

He stated his fund is supposed to encourage these different communities to be a “good neighbor.” We’d like extra of these, and fewer leaders who fail to spot the massive image: substance abuse is an epidemic, and epidemics unfold.

If Boston and neighboring cities type an alliance to struggle the issue, we might all profit. The area might be an instance of coming collectively to struggle a scourge that has destroyed households and shattered lives.

FitzGerald additionally floated the concept of regional cash getting used to fund “Get better Boston,” an interim dependancy restoration campus pitched by the Newmarket Enterprise Enchancment District since August 2023. It’s a stopgap till town can rebuild the Lengthy Island Bridge out to a everlasting 35-acre restoration campus.

The earlier we have now a working restoration campus till the Lengthy Island Bridge is rebuilt, the earlier addicts from Boston and our neighboring cities can have an opportunity to show their lives round and get wholesome.

We’re all on this collectively.

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