War on Drugs Innovator & MET Alum Campanello Joins School of Public Health Seminar
Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello (MET’05), who has been hailed as a trailblazer for his unconventional approach to combating the opiate crisis, lent his expertise to BU’s School of Public Health for a seminar entitled The Opioid Epidemic: Why Cops Are Sending People with Addiction to Treatment Instead of Jail. Campanello, a graduate of Metropolitan College’s top-ranked Master of Criminal Justice online program, discussed the impact and origins of his Gloucester Angel Initiative—which treats addiction as a disease instead of a crime and has drawn national attention.
The talk was held as part of the Dean’s Seminar Series on Contemporary Issues in Public Health. Read more about it in BU Today.