In the News
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newjerseyhills.com: Substance abuse prevention program for parents comes to Long Hill
Posted 3/12/2017
LONG HILL TWP. - The Watchung Hills Regional Municipal Alliance will host the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s (PDFNJ) 15-Minute Child Break program at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 30 at Central Middle School in Stirling.
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Horizon Supports PDFNJ Efforts to Empower Parents to Prevent Opioid and Other Substance Misuse in Their Family
Posted 3/7/2017
MILLBURN --- Deciding when and how to talk to your kids about drugs can be a big decision. Thanks to the support of the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, for the 17th year, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) is able to provide parents information on how and when to have those conversations.
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WashingtonPost.com: Surgeons were told to stop prescribing so many painkillers. The results were remarkable.
Posted 3/7/2017
The head of general surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center had a remarkably simple idea not long ago: What if the department suggested that surgeons limit prescriptions of narcotic pain pills to a specific number for different kinds of operations?
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WashingtonPost.com: The deadly connection between prescription painkillers and the economy
Posted 3/4/2017
About 15 years ago, death rates among middle-aged white Americans stopped falling and started to climb. It was an unprecedented reversal for a modern industrialized country, and we still don’t fully understand why it happened.
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app.com: Do you tell your kids about your past drug use?
Posted 3/2/2017
The opioid epidemic has made a parent or guardian's answer to the inevitable question from a child "Have you ever done drugs?" more consequential given the deadliness of heroin.
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patch.com: Where the Most Overdose Deaths Occurred in Monmouth County in 2016
Posted 3/1/2017
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office released this map Tuesday, showing where the most drug overdose deaths occurred.
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philly.com: Teamsters go after drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen after opioid crisis hits their homes
Posted 3/1/2017
Standing before his fellow Teamsters in June, Travis Bornstein shared the story of his 23-year-old son, an accomplished golfer and bodybuilder who became addicted to prescription pain pills after elbow surgery and eventually succumbed to a heroin overdose in an empty field. For the next two hours at the national meeting in Las Vegas, truckers, dockworkers, and warehousemen told of losing aunts, nephews, and fathers to addiction.
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WashingtonPost.com: Maryland governor declares state of emergency for opioid crisis
Posted 3/1/2017
REISTERSTOWN, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday escalated his administration’s response to the opioid-addiction crisis, declaring a state of emergency and committing an additional $50 million over the next five years to beef up enforcement, prevention and treatment services.
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mtlaurelsun.com - Sun Editorial: End to the ‘American Epidemic?’
Posted 2/27/2017
New Jersey is aiming to attack the opioid problem at its source — the prescriber.
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statnews.com: A grim tally soars: More than 50,000 overdose deaths in US
Posted 2/25/2017
NEW YORK — More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever.