In the News

  • PDFNJ Online Fishing Tournament Encouraged Hundreds of NJ Families to Spend Quality Time Together

    Posted 9/24/2015

    MILLBURN, NJ – Hundreds of New Jersey families spent time together fishing in state rivers, lakes, bays and the Atlantic Ocean along the shore as part of an effort to motivate families to spend time with their children to prevent substance abuse.

  • NJBIA Webinar on Drugs Don’t Work in NJ!

    Posted 9/22/2015

    Trenton: Angelo. M Valente, Executive Director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, and Stephen Trimboli, Esq., of Trimboli & Prusinowski, L.L.C., present a Drug’s Don’t Work in NJ! webinar for members of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA) on Legal Issues of Creating and Maintaining a Drug-Free Workplace Environment.

  • www.dailyrecord.com - Clergy become first responders in drug war

    Posted 9/21/2015

    MORRISTOWN For decades, churches have allowed Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous groups to meet in their basements, but that’s not enough anymore, the Rev. Sidney Williams told some 60 clergy people from across the state who gathered Wednesday in the pews of his Bethel AME Church.

  • www.njherald.com - Exhibit at SCCC gives perspective on heroin addiction

    Posted 9/20/2015

    The exhibit, on display at the college through the first week in October, began as a statewide art contest where artists were tasked to express through art what heroin addiction and use means to them.

  • www.menendez.senate.gov - Menendez Holds Strategy Session on NJ, National Opioid Epidemic

    Posted 9/18/2015

    PATERSON, NJ – With heroin-related deaths increasing by 286% since 2002 according to the CDC, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today met with law enforcement, healthcare and rehabilitation experts to discuss ways to address the opioid epidemic. They talked about drug treatment options and programs, access to medications and if there are ways the federal government can help.

  • Lt. Governor Guadagno, Religious Leaders Gather To Address NJ’s Opiate Abuse Epidemic

    Posted 9/16/2015

    MORRISTOWN – Turning to a faith leader to help address substance abuse addiction in a loved one is often the first step for a family. The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) coordinated a free training to provide resources and information to those Faith Based leaders.

  • nj1015.com: Keeping national tabs on your prescriptions

    Posted 9/10/2015

    Not every state has a Prescription Monitoring Program like New Jersey’s that doctors, pharmacists or a qualified health care worker must check before doling out medications. Right now it wouldn’t matter if all 50 states had such database because they are not interoperable from state to state.

  • nbcnewyork.com: Marijuana Supersedes Cigarette Smoking Among College Students, Study Finds

    Posted 9/1/2015

    More U.S. college students are making a habit of using marijuana, which has supplanted cigarettes as the smoke-able substance of choice among undergraduates who light up regularly, a study released Tuesday found.

  • Free Webinar: Drugs Don’t Work in New Jersey

    Posted 9/1/2015

    Angelo Valente, Executive Director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey with Stephen Trimboli of Trimboli & Prusinowski, L.L.C.: Establishing a drug-free workplace environment

  • abc7ny.com: STUDY FINDS PEAK MONTHS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS' 1ST DRUG USE

    Posted 8/31/2015

    CHICAGO -- Parents worried that their college-bound children might succumb to the temptations of campus life may want to take note of a new analysis that found that students tend to experiment with specific types of drugs for the first time during certain times of year.