By Brian MacQuarrie
Governor Charlie Baker, calling opioid addiction among veterans a “hugely important” issue, pledged Thursday at a center for homeless and disabled Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to keep his administration focused on ways to curb the epidemic.
“We feel there is a tremendous lack of understanding about what’s going on,” Baker said at a roundtable discussion on the raging opioid crisis, which was linked to more than 1,000 deaths in Massachusetts last year.
The state’s veterans have been hard hit by the indiscriminate scourge of opioid addiction, he said.
“They’re dealing with many of the same issues that the rest of the population is,” Baker said at the Northeast Veteran Training and Rehabilitation Center, a nonprofit program that provides housing, counseling, and education.
Last week, residents of a Boston center for homeless veterans said three men had died there of opioid overdoses in
the past several weeks. The residents blamed a brisk marketplace for drugs just outside the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, near City Hall, and an inability to protect veterans inside the facility from an influx of drugs.
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