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cbsnews.com: Teens are being hospitalized for lung damage after vaping — "It's mind-boggling," doctor says
Posted 8/14/2019
In Wisconsin, at least a dozen people have recently been hospitalized and treated for severe lung damage. The first cases were reported last month, and the number has been growing. All of these patients are young — between their teenage years and 30s — and all of them appear to have been harmed by vaping.
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npr.org: More Kids Are Getting Placed In Foster Care Because Of Parents' Drug Use
Posted 8/7/2019
The number of cases of children entering the foster care system due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to research published this week in JAMA Pediatrics.
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nbcnews.com: A peek into opioid users' brains as they try to quit
Posted 7/29/2019
One question researchers want to answer: Do addiction medications do more than ease cravings and withdrawal symptoms?
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njbiz.com: State’s highest court will hear case on medical cannabis in the workplace
Posted 7/17/2019
New Jersey’s Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will consider whether or not a Ridgewood funeral home discriminated against one of its employees in 2016 for using medical cannabis.
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nbcnews.com: KIDS' HEALTH Vaping is hurting teenage athletes, dashing their future in sports
Posted 7/12/2019
"The moment I started using nicotine, it turned off my future goals completely."
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nytimes.com: Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns
Posted 6/12/2019
The notorious Silk Road site was shut down in 2013. Others have followed. But the online trafficking of illegal narcotics hasn’t abated.
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ARMATO, MAZZEO & VAINIERI HUTTLE BILL TO BE FIRST-IN-THE-NATION OPIOID WARNING LABEL LAW HEADS TO GOVERNOR'S DESK
Posted 5/23/2019
(TRENTON) – To help combat the ongoing opioid crisis in New Jersey and nationwide, a bill sponsored by Assembly Democrats John Armato, Vince Mazzeo and Valerie Vainieri Huttle to require all prescription opioid medications to have a warning sticker advising patients of the risk of addiction and overdose was approved Monday by the full Assembly, 77-0. If enacted, New Jersey would be the first State in the nation to adopt a permanent law mandating warning labels for prescription opioids.
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nj.com: N.J. mom has warning for parents after drugs claim life of her son, 15
Posted 5/10/2019
JERSEY CITY — Tracy Reinholt always dreaded her son, Hunter, would struggle with drugs.
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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.