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fios1news.com: Former Garden State governor honored for his work in fight against substance abuse
Posted 6/8/2017
James Florio received the Partnership for a Drug-Free NJ Founders award
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centraljersey.com: Middletown event focuses on drug prevention
Posted 6/8/2017
MIDDLETOWN — Assembling a panel of experts to help inform residents about prescription drug and heroin addiction, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey invited locals to its “Knock Out Opioid Abuse Town Hall” series.
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NYTimes.com: Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever
Posted 6/8/2017
New data compiled from hundreds of health agencies reveals the extent of the drug overdose epidemic last year.
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Former Gov. James Florio to Be Honored with Drugs Don’t Work in NJ! Founder’s Award at Annual Seminar
Posted 6/5/2017
Former Governor James J. Florio will be presented the Drugs Don’t Work in NJ! Founder’s Award at the 20th Annual Legal Issues of a Drug-Free Workplace Statewide Seminar, hosted by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey through its Drugs Don’t Work in NJ! program.
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parsippanyfocus.com: Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, Horizon team up to seek solutions to the opioid crisis
Posted 6/4/2017
They walk into the large auditorium from every walk of life. The seats are filled with parents who have lost children due to opioid abuse; parents, grandparents and concerned community members seeking information on the links between prescribed opioids and heroin abuse to help protect their children; widows and widowers who have lost husbands and wives to addiction; members of the medical community seeking to share information with families on alternatives to prescribed opioids in addressing sports injuries and other acute pain; community professionals and volunteers who try to connect the addicted to treatment services; county prosecutors and local law enforcement officers working to take illegal and prescription opioids off the streets; lawmakers whose lives have been touched by addiction and who are seeking answers and solutions.
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NJ.com: New initiative allows people to surrender drugs, get free help
Posted 6/3/2017
People struggling with addiction can now give up their drugs without being arrested and get access to free recovery services through a new Union County initiative meant to combat New Jersey's opioid epidemic.
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philadelphia.cbslocal.com: Congressional Call For Tri-State Cooperation In Opioid Prescription Monitoring Program
Posted 6/3/2017
WASHINGTON, DC (CBS) — There’s a push among three local members of Congress to get their states on board with sharing information on what prescriptions doctors are writing for highly addictive opioids.
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njherald.com: New drug kits save police dogs from opioid overdoses
Posted 6/1/2017
BOSTON (AP) — Police dogs simply follow their noses to sniff out narcotics. But inhaling powerful opioids can be deadly, so officers have a new tool to protect their four-legged partners: naloxone, a drug that has already been used for years to reverse overdoses in humans.
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paramus.dailyvoice.com: 'Town Hall' Opioid Abuse Meeting In Paramus Smashes Myths, Offers Hope
Posted 5/31/2017
PARAMUS, N.J. -- If you think most heroin users started by choice, you're in for a surprise, speakers at an anti-opioid Town Hall meeting at Bergen Community College in Paramus on Wednesday agreed.
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tapinto.net: Bergen Officials and Professionals Team-Up to Knock Out Opioid Abuse
Posted 5/31/2017
PARAMUS - There were no sad stories, only sad statistics at the town hall meeting to address the growing opioid abuse "epidemic" today at Bergen County Community College. "Not a day goes by when we don't feel the impact, see the misuse or how it touches families," Angelo Valente, executive director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, said in his opening remarks of the two-hour seminar. It was the fourth of 17 town hall seminars held in communities statewide about opioid abuse.