QOTW: What more is needed to attack addiction in the First State?

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AtTAck addiction and Impact Life recently opened a Behavioral Health Resource Center in Peoples Plaza in Glasgow, offering services like housing referrals, online support and harm-reduction help. Its founder said, “We want to make it easy for the community to come in here, find what they need, whatever that might be, (and) to assist people in recovery (with) mental health issues and any other services they might need.” As opioid use and accidental overdoses skyrocket, what can be done to stem the tide? How do facilities such as this one help and what more can they do?

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