The Dorchester Substance Abuse Coalition will be hosting a Community Meeting on Tuesday, December 6, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Leahy-Holloran Community Center. The Leahy-Holloran Community Center is located at 1 Worrell Street in Dorchester, 02122. The meeting will feature special guests - Mr. Adam Butler, Executive Director of the Needle Exchange Program from the Boston Public Health Commission, Bureau of Addiction's Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services. Adam Butler will be presenting NARCAN, a powerful tool in overdose prevention. The meeting will also feature The improbably PLAYERS, a fun theater group that will be enacting a ten-minute play to inspire young people to think and talk about the impact of substance abuse on their lives, friends, family, and community. The group also touches on real possibilities for change.
DSAC Meetings are open to all in the community. For more information, please contact Adelia Rocha at 617.533.3274.
The Be a Parent, Not a Pal program is designed to educate parents and teens about the social, criminal, and civil penalties and liabilities related to Underage Drinking and the Social Host Law. The program will also cover athletes caught drinking, using drugs, smoking, or chewing tobacco and the penalties. Voter registration will be covered for age appropiate teens. The program will take place from 6pm to 8pm at the Leahy-Holloran Community Center at the Murphy School (1 Worrell Street, Dorchester). For more info, visit 
The Dorchester Substance Abuse Coalition is presenting a forum for parents and teens with several guest speakers including local men and women in recovery and Ms. Joanne Peterson from www.learn2cope.org. The forum’s goal will be to educate, help build skills and offer supportive resources to both youth and parents (parents and teens will be in separate meeting areas).
The DSAC is having a quarterly meeting on June 21 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The meeting takes place at Leahy Holloran Community Center, 1 Worrel St, Dorchester. Centered on the theme "Weeding out the Facts," the meeting will feature a talk from Marilyn G. Belmonte, Director of Drug Abuse Recognition & Prevention and Co-Chair of the Burlington Drug and Alcohol Task Force. Please rsvp to Adelia: 617-282-3200 ext. 3172 or 617-533-2234.
Carney Hospital is partnering with the Boston Police Department, Boston Public Health Commission, Dorchester Substance Abuse Coalition and Walgreen's for this safe prescription disposal event at Walgreen's parking lot on Gallivan Blvd. on Saturday, June 25, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (There is also an event in Jamaica Plain.)
