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njspotlight.com: ACCESS TO TREATMENT OF OPIOID ADDICTION EASED FOR THOSE ON MEDICAID
Posted 4/2/2019
The state is removing a barrier to medication-assisted treatment that should give Medicaid patients greater access
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nj1015.com: WHAT NJ IS DOING TO TAKE DOWN UNIMAGINABLE NUMBER OF HEROIN MILLS
Posted 3/25/2019
Authorities in New Jersey are ramping up efforts to take down drug operations that are mixing heroin with fentanyl, a potent and deadly opioid. Last week, officials took down a heroin mill in Hudson County that prosecutors said was tied to more than 80 overdose deaths in the past year.
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njbmagazine.com: Menendez, Booker Announce $11.3M to Combat NJ’s Opioid Epidemic
Posted 3/22/2019
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker announce $11.3 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance New Jersey’s efforts to prevent, treat and respond to the growing opioid epidemic.
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usatoday.com: Marijuana as a cure for opioid use? Nation's top drug scientist says she's skeptical
Posted 3/21/2019
The head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse said there’s no evidence that marijuana weans people from opioid addiction – and promoting such treatment might deny people a chance at recovery.
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centraljersey.com: Howell police start program to pick up unwanted medications from residents
Posted 3/20/2019
HOWELL – A representative of the Howell Municipal Alliance has said Howell is the first municipality in New Jersey to permit police officers to visit a resident’s home to pick up unwanted medications with the goal of halting an ongoing opioid epidemic.
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nj.com: Could you become an opioid addict? We may soon have a test for that.
Posted 3/14/2019
What if one day there were a genetic test that could spot whether a person was susceptible to opioid abuse later in life? It would be like 23andMe, but instead of telling whether someone is predisposed to heart disease, this would tell us whether someone might be at risk for opioid dependency.
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today.com: [VIDEO] Opioid crisis spreading, now impacting more African Americans
Posted 3/8/2019
The face of the nation’s devastating opioid crisis is changing. African Americans had been less affected by record overdose deaths than whites largely because of geography. Now, fentanyl’s spread is changing that. NBC’s Jacob Soboroff reports for TODAY.
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nj.com: These are the N.J. colleges with the most (and fewest) drug busts
Posted 3/7/2019
Drug busts on New Jersey college campuses are rising, new statistics show. There were 1,746 drug arrests and referrals for campus discipline on New Jersey's four-year college campuses in 2017, according to an NJ Advance Media review of the latest crime reports from 27 schools.
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cbsnews.com: Did the FDA ignite the opioid epidemic?
Posted 3/6/2019
A drug manufacturer denounces his own industry and explains to 60 Minutes how a label change by the FDA expanded the use of opioids
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cbspressexpress.com - ON “60 MINUTES”: FORMER FDA COMMISSIONER DAVID KESSLER SAYS AGENCY ERRED IN ALLOWING DRUG COMPANIES TO PROMOTE OPIOIDS FOR CHRONIC PAIN TREATMENT
Posted 3/6/2019
Dr. David Kessler, the FDA commissioner in the 1990s at the time Purdue’s powerful, long-acting opioid OxyContin was first approved, says the FDA never should have allowed the drug and others like it to be broadly marketed for chronic pain patients.