In the News
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Lauren and Carol Verrasto, of Park Middle School, Awarded iPad for Participation in PDFNJ/Horizon Foundation for NJ 5th Grade Parent Alert Program
Posted 1/28/2016
Over 30,000 5th Grade Students participated in this program throughout the state. This initiative is designed to provide information on substance abuse trends and tips to prevent substance abuse to New Jersey parents of 5th grade students.
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NY Times: Drug Deaths Reach White America
Posted 1/25/2016
Congress has historically treated drug abuse as a malady afflicting mostly poor, minority communities, best dealt with by locking people up for long periods of time. The epidemic of drug overdose deaths currently ravaging white populations in cities and towns across the country has altered this line of thinking, and forced lawmakers to acknowledge that addiction is a problem that knows no racial barriers and can be best addressed with treatment.
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northjersey.com: Shout Down Drugs holds music competition for state high school kids
Posted 1/21/2016
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey's Shout Down Drugs music competition deadline is Feb. 1.
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shorenewstoday.com: Police department gets new medicine drop box
Posted 1/19/2016
MARGATE – The Police Department recently installed a new, larger drop box for unwanted prescription and over-the-counter drugs and is asking residents to take the American Medicine Chest Challenge.
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comcastnewsmakers.com: [VIDEO] Do No Harm Campaign and Drug Abuse
Posted 1/19/2016
Jill Horner speaks with Angelo Valente, Executive Director from the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, about their Do No Harm Campaign and Drug Abuse
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nj.com: New potent pot making its way into N.J. suburbs, police say
Posted 1/18/2016
MENDHAM — The recent seizure of marijuana during a Mendham traffic stop highlights a growing trend toward a more powerful form of the drug, police and officials say.
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cnbc.com: America's painkiller epidemic grips the workplace
Posted 1/18/2016
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, recently referred to opioid abuse — including prescription painkillers — as "a growing epidemic that is gripping our country."
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NYTimes.com: Drug Overdoses Propel Rise in Mortality Rates of Young Whites
Posted 1/17/2016
Drug overdoses are driving up the death rate of young white adults in the United States to levels not seen since the end of the AIDS epidemic more than two decades ago — a turn of fortune that stands in sharp contrast to falling death rates for young blacks, a New York Times analysis of death certificates has found.
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examiner.com: NJ Teens invited to promote drug abuse prevention with original music
Posted 1/14/2016
New Jersey high school students are invited to participate in the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey Shout Down Drugs competition by creating and performing original substance abuse prevention music and songs. The Shout Down Drugs competition gives New Jersey teens the opportunity to promote drug use prevention using their own lyrics and music. All musical genres, from hip hop to gospel to rock and roll, as well as everything in between, can be submitted to the competition.
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knpr.org: New Painkiller Rules Postponed: CDC Mystery Or Politics?
Posted 1/13/2016
Dr. Andrew Kolodny, senior scientist at Brandeis University; current chief medical officer at Phoenix House, a drug addiction treatment center, has no doubt pharmaceutical companies who profit from American's opioid addictions are behind the delay by the CDC.