In the News
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washingtonpost.com: Recovery coaches at ERs try to help opioid addicts avoid another overdose
Posted 7/25/2017
NEW YORK — Five months into his job at a 24-hour walk-in behavioral health center here on Staten Island, Tarik Arafat has a new assignment: on call at a nearby hospital to counsel people who have just been revived from opioid overdoses.
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huffingtonpost.com: In Pain? Talk to Your Doctor & Dentist Before Opioids Are Prescribed
Posted 7/21/2017
Despite the medical community’s best efforts, opioids are the most common form of pain treatment with more than 259 million prescriptions written each year. That is enough for every adult in the United States to have a bottle of pills or enough to cover 3 football fields. As such, the misuse and abuse of opioid pain relievers—such as hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl, etc.—has reached epidemic and some argue pandemic proportions.
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thefix.com: Shame's Impact On Addiction & Recovery
Posted 7/21/2017
Some experts believe that shame can be a resource in overcoming addiction while others think unresolved shame can fuel it.
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newjersey.news12.com: Powerful opioid suspected in 10-year-old Miami boy's death
Posted 7/21/2017
MIAMI (AP) - A 10-year-old boy from a drug-ridden Miami neighborhood apparently died of a fentanyl overdose last month, becoming one of Florida's littlest victims of the opioid crisis, authorities said Tuesday. But how he came into contact with the powerful painkiller is a mystery.
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nj.com: The death toll from drugs just reached a grim new high in N.J.
Posted 7/21/2017
Deaths from drug overdoses likely topped 2,000 in 2016, killing more people than guns, car accidents and suicides combined, according to analysis by NJ Advance Media.
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northjersey.com: Bergen County heading toward most lethal year in opioid crisis
Posted 7/21/2017
HACKENSACK — The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office released statistics this week that show 2017 could be the most lethal year on record for the burgeoning heroin crisis.
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bloomberg.com: Neuroscience Offers Insights Into the Opioid Epidemic
Posted 7/21/2017
Addiction changes the brain in lasting ways, and some brains are more vulnerable than others.
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vox.com: A new study suggests it’s possible to get people off opioids and improve their pain
Posted 7/21/2017
The study found that when some patients are tapered off opioids, their pain levels improve.
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vox.com: There’s a highly successful treatment for opioid addiction. But stigma is holding it back.
Posted 7/21/2017
Medication-assisted treatment is often called the gold standard of addiction care. But much of the country has resisted it.
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nj.com: The ugly truth about substance abuse treatment in N.J.
Posted 7/18/2017
New Jersey is only meeting 59 percent of its demand for substance abuse treatment, according to a study quietly published by the Department of Human Services.