In the News
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patch.com: Union Co. Teen Gets 1st Place For Substance Use Prevention Song
Posted 5/17/2022
Keyoni Lee, a Union County teen, won first place for an original song she wrote featuring substance use prevention messages for PDFNJ's Your Song! Your Voice! Shout Down Drugs New Jersey music competition.
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Union County Teen Takes Home First Place in PDFNJ’s Substance Use Prevention Music Competition
Posted 5/12/2022
Congratulations to Keyoni Lee of Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy. First place winner of the 2022 Your Song! Your Voice! Shout Down Drugs New Jersey music competition. Visit shoutdowndrugs.com and listen to Keyoni's winning song as well as the other great performances.
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Two Bergen County Students Win PDFNJ’s Statewide Fourth Grade Folder Contest
Posted 5/4/2022
Statewide Fourth Grade Folder Contest BERGENFIELD, NJ — Young people are using their artistic talents to encourage their peers to live a healthy substance-free lifestyle as part of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s (PDFNJ) Design a Fourth Grade Folder contest. Nearly 3,000 fourth grade students from all 21 counties in New Jersey entered the contest, with two Bergen County students chosen as this year’s winners.
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northjersey.com: NJ getting $641M to fight the opioid epidemic. Why fentanyl is making it harder than ever
Posted 4/26/2022
While the Murphy administration examines how to spend $641 million from drug companies for their roles in the opioid epidemic, New Jersey faces a deadlier and more pervasive threat from fentanyl than it ever did from painkillers and heroin.
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PDFNJ Expands Its Spanish Language Educational Campaign and Initiatives
Posted 4/5/2022
MILLBURN — Providing the education and tools to help families safeguard their home and children from substance use is the goal of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s (PDFNJ) expansion of its online parent education program to include a Spanish language version.
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Your Song! Your Voice! - Finalists Announced and Online Voting is Now Open!
Posted 3/21/2022
MILLBURN — New Jersey high school students across the state are raising their voice and sharing powerful messages about substance misuse and prevention for the 2022 Your Song! Your Voice! Shout Down Drugs New Jersey music competition.
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tapinto.net: Scotch Plains-Fanwood Students to Learn Substance Prevention from PSEG
Posted 3/7/2022
PDFNJ and the PSEG Foundation are collaborating once again to send a message to New Jersey students across the state, including Scotch Plains-Fanwood students, on the importance of healthy choices through the annual Third Grade Healthy Life Healthy Decisions Coloring and Activity Book.
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shoresportsnetwork.com: Former NFL Quarterback Ray Lucas Talks Football And How Opioids Almost Took Everything From His Life
Posted 3/3/2022
Former NFL football quarterback Ray Lucas talks about reaching out to student athletes through the PDFNJ and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Knock Out Opioid Abuse Initiative.
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PSEG & PDFNJ to Bring Vital Substance Use Prevention Messages to Third Grade Students in Scotch Plains & Throughout NJ
Posted 3/3/2022
Scotch Plains, NJ— The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) and the PSEG Foundation are collaborating once again to send a message to New Jersey students across the state on the importance of healthy choices through the annual Third Grade Healthy Life Healthy Decisions Coloring and Activity Book. The third grade students at Brunner Elementary School in Scotch Plains received their books this week
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PDFNJ and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Deliver Parent Education to Combat Substance Use
Posted 2/24/2022
TOMS RIVER, NJ — The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey are combatting substance use by equipping thousands of New Jersey parents with important information with the 5th Grade Parent Alert program.