Lawyers to Receive Training on Pilot Anti-Opioid Program

Massachusetts lawyers will receive training on how the state's two-year anti-opioid pilot program, announced in December, will work and how to identify which of their clients might be suitable for it. Through the program, the state will assign care coordinators — liaisons between patients and the health care system — to opioid-using workers whose cases have been settled. Once employers stop paying for opioids, workers sometimes turn to illicit means to get the drugs they have become addicted to.  On Feb. 8 at the Massachusetts Bar Association's building in ...