In the News
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Bergen County Volunteers and PDFNJ Continue to Spread Life-Saving Message at ‘Friday Night Lights Out to Knock Out Opioid Abuse’
Posted 10/27/2017
Volunteers in Bergen County, with the help of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey and New Jersey Assemblyman Kevin Rooney, helped to spread the word about the dangers of prescription opioids and their link to heroin abuse at football games at Don Bosco Prep and Mahwah High School on Friday night.
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cinnaminsonsun.com: Burlington County talks impact and solutions to opioid abuse at Knock Out Opioid Abuse Town Hall
Posted 10/27/2017
Burlington County residents and other officials gathered at Rowan College at Burlington County in Mt. Laurel last week as part of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s latest stop in the statewide “Knock Out Opioid Abuse” town hall series.
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New Jersey Families Challenged to Tackle Prescription Drug Misuse
Posted 10/25/2017
Free, Safe Medicine Disposal Locations Available Throughout the State
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theatlantic.com: Where the Opioids Go
Posted 10/24/2017
While the United States faces an epidemic of narcotic addiction, most of the world dies in pain.
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bloomberg.com: The Opioid Addict on the Trading Floor
Posted 10/24/2017
Wall Street professionals get hooked, and some executives see an opportunity.
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cbsnews.com - Issues That Matter: How state attorneys general are tackling the opioid crisis
Posted 10/24/2017
As part of our ongoing series, Issues That Matter, we take a closer look at America's opioid crisis with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. He called out drug companies for being the "supply chain" that enabled the epidemic and Congress for their lack of action against those companies.
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centraljersey.com: East Windsor to once again participate in 'Operation Medicine Cabinet'
Posted 10/19/2017
East Windsor Township will participate in the New Jersey Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sponsored program “Operation Medicine Cabinet” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The program offers residents the opportunity to dispose of all unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications in a safe manner.
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nj.com: How fentanyl went from obscurity to N.J.'s most dangerous drug
Posted 10/19/2017
In the mid-2000s, the New Jersey Poison Control Center noticed an alarming pattern. Dozens of people dropped dead in the Camden area after taking fentanyl, a then-obscure-but-powerful synthetic opioid that was being used as a lacing agent in local batches of heroin.
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nj.com - Attorney General: Why N.J. is cracking down on doctors, drugmakers in opioid fight
Posted 10/19/2017
TRENTON — With heroin and opioid painkiller overdoses on the rise in New Jersey, state authorities are cracking down on doctors prescribing painkillers and the pharmaceutical companies that make them.
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jerseyshoreonline.com: Volunteers Go Door-To-Door To Fight Drug Abuse
Posted 10/19/2017
BRICK – Thousands of volunteers in New Jersey delivered door hangers containing information about opioid abuse prevention to thousands of homes for the second annual Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day.