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njherald.com: Feds say heroin, fentanyl remain biggest drug threat to US
Posted 11/5/2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Opioid overdose deaths hit the highest level ever recorded in the United States last year, with an estimated 200 people dying per day, according to a report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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burlingtoncountytimes.com: Burlington County coaches, student athletes to receive opioid prevention toolkit
Posted 11/5/2018
The Burlington County Coalition for Healthy Communities hosted a kick off event at Lenape High School to unveil a tool kit for coaches, trainers, school nurses, parents and young athletes to highlight the dangers of opioid prescribing for sports injuries.
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mycentraljersey.com - Heartbeats: Taking on the opioid epidemic
Posted 10/31/2018
New Jersey’s chiropractic physicians are ready to take on the opioid epidemic, both from a treatment and a prevention standpoint.
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whas11.com: Narcan to be offered to every public library and YMCA for free
Posted 10/29/2018
In the latest move to fight the opioid crisis, every public library and YMCA in the U.S. could soon have the overdose-reversing drug Narcan on hand.
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northjersey.com: Paterson hospital's effort to cut opioid prescriptions part of national anti-addiction law
Posted 10/29/2018
WASHINGTON — A North Jersey hospital's program to sharply reduce emergency room opioid prescriptions is now a national model, one of dozens of ideas for attacking the addiction epidemic that Congress compiled into a 250-page bill that President Donald Trump signed Wednesday.
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nbcnews.com: Trump signs sweeping opioid bill with vow to end 'scourge' of drug addiction
Posted 10/29/2018
The legislation passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.
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pressofatlanticcity.com: Atlantic County Sets Up New Drug Task Force
Posted 10/29/2018
Atlantic County is getting a new task force that will crack down on drug trafficking in one of the highest-ranked areas in the state for narcotics activity, county Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner said Tuesday.
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nj.com - Gov. McGreevey: 3 things N.J. can do to turn the tide on opioid crisis
Posted 10/12/2018
The opioid crisis has become the defining public health challenge of our time. Overdose deaths are tearing apart communities at a rate faster than the AIDS epidemic at its peak and now claim more American lives each year -- over 72,000 in 2017 according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) -- than the Vietnam War in its entirety. New Jersey has been particularly hard hit by the crisis with its rate of annual overdose deaths spiking almost 30 percent in the past year (one of the highest in the nation) and over 3,000 overdose deaths anticipated this year.
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njbmagazine.com: Combatting the Opioid Crisis
Posted 10/10/2018
While the number of opioid prescriptions is down, the number of deaths continues to rise.
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pressofatlanticcity: NJ leaders take action in Washington on opioid epidemic
Posted 10/9/2018
Legislators in Congress may not agree on many things these days, but efforts to address the nationwide opioid epidemic are among the few things that achieve bipartisan collaboration.