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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.
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health.usnews.com: Why Some Opioids Users Don't Fear a Fatal Overdose
Posted 6/12/2018
A COUPLE YEARS AGO, when local news agencies reported a spike in overdose deaths related to fentanyl in St. Paul, Minnesota, clinicians at an outpatient treatment clinic in that city saw an immediate effect.
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njtvonline.org: In Newark, DEA launches comprehensive plan for battling opioid epidemic
Posted 6/8/2018
Pablo Pizarro, pastor at Assembly of God Church in Newark recalled, “I’ve walked into bathrooms where my mother had a bag stuck to her, track marks all over, and she was overdosing.” With the opioid epidemic at an all-time high, stories like that of Pablo Pizarro told this morning at a DEA press conference in Newark are becoming all too common, and breaking the cycle of violence and addiction generated by drugs is becoming increasingly difficult.