AST BRIDGEWATER — Police Chief John Cowan, along with Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello, and John Rosenthal, co-founders of The Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (P.A.A.R.I.), are pleased to announce that the East Bridgewater Police Department has joined P.A.A.R.I. to further the “EB Hope Substance Abuse Outreach and Intervention Program.”
EB HOPE, a non-profit volunteer organization started in 2011, is a collaboration of members from the community, including local police, school department personnel, local town government, drug treatment and recovery members, the local clergy and residents suffering from substance abuse and/or their family members. This EB HOPE Outreach program targets East Bridgewater residents, but will also incorporate residents from neighboring communities including, West Bridgewater, Bridgewater and Whitman, totaling 63,000 residents. In all four communities, there were 109 overdoses (four fatalities in East Bridgewater) this year from Jan. 1 to Oct. 18.
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