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wfmj.com: New guide for drug prevention in schools says no scare tactics, mock crashes
Posted 6/27/2018
A new resource guide for superintendents, teachers, and educators across the state of Ohio is shedding some light on the "best practices" for drug prevention lessons in the classroom.
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burlingtonfreepress.com: Daughter of Vermont man who died after struggling with drug addiction gives message of hope
Posted 6/27/2018
A recent high school graduate wants students to understand the terrible price of addiction before they lose everything including their lives, like her father did.
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app.com: NJ drug deaths continue to soar as national numbers decline
Posted 6/19/2018
For the first time since the federal government declared the opioid crisis an epidemic in 2011, the number of U.S. overdose deaths is edging downward — despite unrelenting carnage in states such as New Jersey, according to new preliminary data.
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roi-nj.com: Opioid bill, modeled after ALTO program at St. Joseph’s, passes in House
Posted 6/19/2018
Effort to take N.J. program national moves one step forward, awaits action by Senate
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duluthnewstribune.com: Unseen face of the opioid epidemic: Drug abuse among the elderly grows
Posted 6/19/2018
WASHINGTON - The face of the nation's opioid epidemic increasingly is gray and wrinkled. But that face often is overlooked in a crisis that frequently focuses on the young. Consider this: While opioid abuse declined in younger groups between 2002 and 2014, even sharply among those 18 to 25 years old, the epidemic almost doubled among Americans over age 50, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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kansas.com: Drug abuse taking toll on children
Posted 6/19/2018
Drug abuse by Kansas parents – particularly meth – continues to take an extreme toll on both our youth and the state agencies which oversee their care and well-being.
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nj.com: Paterson hospital's opioid program goes national
Posted 6/13/2018
WASHINGTON -- At St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson, emergency room physicians try to ease patients' pain in ways that don't involve prescribing opioids.
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khn.org: How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
Posted 6/13/2018
An inside look at how Purdue Pharma pushed OxyContin despite risks of addiction and fatalities.
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uppermichiganssource.com - Records: Ohio should require anti-overdose prescriptions
Posted 6/12/2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Doctors prescribing painkillers to patients with chronic pain should be required to also provide them with prescriptions for anti-overdose drugs, several people and organizations told the state medical board as it reviews ways to slow the opioid crisis.
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latimes.com: California is now paying for people to test their drugs for fentanyl
Posted 6/12/2018
As the death toll from the nation’s opioid crisis swells, California officials have launched an experiment: paying for people to test their drugs for fentanyl.