In the News
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chicagotribune.com: Colleges using sober dorms to combat alcohol, drug addiction
Posted 1/12/2018
Over 20 million young Americans started college this fall. For most of them, the next few years will be a time of intellectual challenges, new friendships and career exploration. But for many, those years will also include a lot of partying and exposure to an abundance of alcohol and drugs.
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bloomberg.com: Supply, Not Despair, Caused the Opioid Epidemic
Posted 1/12/2018
New data from both the U.S. and Europe suggest how the opioid epidemic might be stopped.
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app.com: Opioid prescriptions in NJ: How each county ranks
Posted 1/10/2018
The number of opioid prescriptions written in the southern counties of New Jersey rose toward the top of counties nationally in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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pressofatlanticcity.com: DEA 360 Strategy to combat opioid, heroin abuse in South Jersey
Posted 1/10/2018
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has tapped South Jersey counties to be part of a law-enforcement, diversion control and prevention “360 Strategy” to help cities dealing with heroin and prescription drug abuse.
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pennlive.com: Gov. Wolf to issue statewide disaster declaration in Pa. opioid epidemic
Posted 1/10/2018
Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday will issue a disaster declaration in Pennsylvania. But it won't be a routine step before bad weather and relief efforts that follow. For the first time in state history, the announcement will be made for a public health crisis and the ongoing opioid epidemic killing thousands of Pennsylvania residents each year.
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abcnews.go.com: Judge urges action on '100 percent manmade' opioid crisis
Posted 1/10/2018
A federal judge on Tuesday set a goal of doing something about the nation's opioid epidemic this year, while noting the drug crisis is "100 percent man-made." Judge Dan Polster urged participants on all sides of lawsuits against drugmakers and distributors to work toward a common goal of reducing overdose deaths. He said the issue has come to courts because "other branches of government have punted" it.
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wbur.org: Suicide Emerges In Understanding The Opioid Epidemic
Posted 1/10/2018
Mady Ohlman is 22 on the evening when she stands in a friend’s bathroom looking down at the sink. "I had set up a bunch of needles, filled with heroin, ‘cause I wanted to just do them back to back to back," Ohlman says. She doesn’t remember how many she injects before collapsing or how long she lies, drugged out, on the floor.
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Deadline to Enter New Jersey Shout Down Drugs Competition is February 1
Posted 1/8/2018
MILLBURN — New Jersey high school students are invited to share their musical drug prevention messages as part of the 2018 New Jersey Shout Down Drugs music competition, organized by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey.
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usatoday.com: We mobilized against flu, cancer and heart attacks. Where's the urgency on opioids?
Posted 1/5/2018
This is a medical crisis virtually without precedent in our country and it needs to be treated accordingly, from the exam room to the legislature.
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thehill.com: More than half think painkillers a major problem, but not a national emergency: report
Posted 1/5/2018
A little over half the country considers prescription painkiller addiction a major problem for the nation, but say it doesn't rise to the level of national emergency, a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine notes.