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njspotlight.com: MURPHY SETS NEW DIRECTION FOR TACKLING OPIOID EPIDEMIC
Posted 4/4/2018
New funding for community-based providers who can treat outpatients with addictions while these individuals continue with work, school, or family life. More housing and job training for New Jersey residents with — or without — drug dependencies. And better data and real-time analysis of the state’s investments to address these concerns.
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nj.com: N.J. drug overdose deaths in 2018 on a record-shattering pace
Posted 4/4/2018
The list keeps growing. The flu. Alzheimer's disease. Breast cancer. Colon cancer. Cervical cancer. Prostate cancer cancer. Homicide, suicide and car accidents combined. The opioid crisis is likely to kill more people than each of these in 2018.
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njherald.com: Dentist group puts teeth in push to curb opioid painkillers
Posted 3/28/2018
CHICAGO (AP) — The American Dental Association wants dentists to drastically cut back on prescribing opioid painkillers.
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thehill.com: American Dental Association backs seven-day limit on opioids
Posted 3/28/2018
The American Dental Association (ADA) wants to put a seven-day limit on dentists' opioid prescriptions for acute pain, a position that puts the group in line with federal guidelines but goes further than recommendations from the nation’s top association of doctors.
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thehill.com: Opioid crisis has cost US roughly 1M workers, $702B: study
Posted 3/28/2018
The U.S. economy has lost close to 1 million workers and $702 billion due to opioid addiction, according to a study released Tuesday.
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thefix.com: Why Do Americans Use More Painkillers Than Other Countries?
Posted 3/28/2018
A recent analysis examined why Americans consume six to eight times more opioids than Italians and the French.
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kpbs.org: Opioid Crisis Gripping More Addicts Before Adulthood
Posted 3/28/2018
In communities across the country, there is something snatching away bright futures and turning children into addicts. The face of the opioid crisis is getting younger.
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usatoday.com: Doctors fed the opioid crisis. Can they help cure it?
Posted 3/23/2018
Even as more than 64,000 people in America died in 2016 of drug overdoses — 40 a day from prescription opioids alone — doctors continued promiscuously writing prescriptions for the drivers of this horrifying epidemic.
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burlingtoncountytimes.com: Prosecutor’s ‘Straight to Treatment’ program takes next step in planning process
Posted 3/23/2018
An initiative Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina has been working on for months that would allow those who are addicted to receive treatment instead of jail time took the next step forward.
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nj.com: What 3 people battling heroin addiction say about drugs, cops, and dying
Posted 3/23/2018
It's one thing to know the opioid epidemic exists. And to know how bad it is. To hear statistics, like the number of heroin-related overdose deaths nationwide has more than quadrupled since 2010, and to recognize that that's a problem.