Daily Archives: October 10, 2019
COSH Network Works to Stop Pain, Combat Addiction
When Ironworker Shawn Nehiley was prescribed the opioid OxyContin to treat pain for a work injury, the drug’s pull to addiction hit him like “a tornado that you feel you can’t get out of.” Nehiley is a business agent with Ironworkers Local 7 and a MassCOSH board member. Epidemic rates of opioid addiction and overdose are causing …