AHOPE Needle Exchange

01/08/2026

We are so incredibly grateful to our friends at Ricky Inc for this amazing winter delivery of backpacks, warm weather gear, socks, underwear, and hygiene supplies to AHOPE and PAATHS.

Almost everyone we serve is currently experiencing homelessness—living in shelters or surviving on the streets.

These supplies will help our folks stay warmer, safer during the winter months, and it serves as a reminder that they are loved and supported, despite the anti-homeless sentiment and policies at the local and federal level.

Thank you, Ricky Inc, for showing up for our community in such a meaningful way. We truly couldn’t do this work without partners like you.

09/23/2024

AHOPE now has Rivive 3mg intranasal naloxone available thanks to our friends at Remedy Alliance FTP! Swing through the drop in at 774 Albany and pick up a couple doses!

03/29/2022

‘Boston city councilors on Tuesday peppered leaders from the Boston Police Department with questions about their $627,000 purchase of controversial surveillance equipment using a hidden pot of money.’

Tuesday's hearing follows an investigation by WBUR and ProPublica that revealed Boston police bought a cell site simulator from proceeds of civil asset forfeiture in 2019. Civil rights advocates say the warrantless use of the technology, which tracks real time cell phone use and location, violates p...

03/24/2022

“Abasciano has been under investigation by the department for more than a year in connection with his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill insurrection and a Twitter rant against Vice President Mike Pence.”

A Boston cop out on medical leave for more than a year has gone from D.C. rally to anti-vax activist.

03/21/2022

Joe Abasciano is on paid medical leave from the Boston Police Department. He remains under investigation by the force for his involvement in the insurrection at the US Capitol and for attacking former Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter.

03/16/2022

⚠️ Today, RIDOH issued a Public Health Alert due to increased opioid overdose activity in Hopkinton, Richmond, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, and Exeter (Region 9). Read the full Alert here: https://bit.ly/3JuVMe8

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03/14/2022

To Collado, 53, the room he uses regularly is simply “a blessing.”

“They always worry about you, and they’re always taking care of you,” he says.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with he**in. After years of shooting up on streets and rooftops, he was in one of the first two facilities in the country where local officials are allowing illegal drug use in ord...

03/14/2022

A lone attacker shot the men, two of whom died, as they slept in the street, the authorities said.

03/13/2022

“It would improve public health, public safety, and mental health.”

Come November, we’ll fall back, masochistically, into darkness. Jim Braude argues for a better way.

03/09/2022

Boston city employees of color Tuesday spoke out against a culture of nepotism and unfair treatment within city departments during a hearing that probed hiring and promotional practices.

02/28/2022

“If they’re going to say that we are giving them options, we are not going to leave them out in the cold, then you can’t leave them out in the cold,” Joubert said. “If you make a promise, you need to stick with that.”

Many people were displaced from their tents and sent out into the city without housing.

02/26/2022

“It is just unreal that we are dealing with church burnings,” Rollins said. “We can’t be lulled into this sense that this ideology doesn’t exist here — that we’re Northerners and we’re better because we’re above the Mason-Dixon line.”

“We can’t be lulled into this sense that this ideology doesn’t exist here — that we’re Northerners and we’re better because we’re above the Mason-Dixon line,” US Attorney Rachael Rollins said.