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  • Galloway.Patch.com - Prescription Drug Drop Box Installed in Mays Landing

    Posted 3/7/2014

    With the support and collaboration of Actavis, PDFNJ – the parent organization of the American Medicine Chest Challenge, recently awarded the Atlantic Co. Sheriff’s Office with a permanent collection box for the disposal of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine, the 79th permanent collection in the state of NJ.

  • AMCC Provides Atlantic Co. Residents an Opportunity to Safely Dispose of their Unwanted Rx Medicines

    Posted 3/6/2014

    With the support and collaboration of Actavis, PDFNJ – the parent organization of the American Medicine Chest Challenge, recently awarded the Atlantic Co. Sheriff’s Office with a permanent collection box for the disposal of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine, the 79th permanent collection in the state of NJ. The box will be located in the vestibule of the Mays Landing Criminal Court Complex, which is open to the public from 7:30am to 5pm Monday through Friday.

  • tomsriver.patch.com: HEROIN in Ocean County: No Longer Somewhere Else

    Posted 2/28/2014

    No longer the scariest drug, heroin is now among the easiest to get. It's among the most accessible; especially the high. And as it becomes cheaper and more available, it's no longer the problem that's happening "elsewhere." Small towns, big cites, even rural farmland areas - they're all coming to grips with the sad fact that the number of cases in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere has skyrocketed in just a matter of a few years.

  • Union County Duo Advances to Finals in New Jersey Shout Down Drugs Competition

    Posted 2/18/2014

    he votes have been counted! The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) announced today that Teddy Cole and Kate Parker, of Union County, are this year’s New Jersey Shout Down Drugs (NJSDD) “Online Voting People’s Choice Finalist”.

  • NY Times (via Reuters): U.S. Drug Czar Urges Police to Carry Heroin Overdose Treatment

    Posted 2/11/2014

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday urged more local police and fire departments to equip their officers with a medication used to revive people who have overdosed on heroin, citing a troubling increase in deaths from the drug.

  • NYTimes.com: Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin

    Posted 2/10/2014

    The life of a heroin addict is not the same as it was 20 years ago, and the biggest reason is what some doctors call “heroin lite”: prescription opiates. These medications are more available than ever, and reliably whet an appetite that, once formed, never entirely fades.

  • CNN.com: One snapshot in a tragic national picture: Long Island sees exploding heroin use

    Posted 2/9/2014

    New York (CNN) -- The first time Chris shot up heroin, he was too scared to do it himself. So his friend did it for him -- when he was 16. "I would shoot up mostly in my feet," he said. "It escalated to almost five or six bags every time I shot up."

  • NY Times: How to Stop Heroin Deaths

    Posted 2/7/2014

    I am an emergency physician at NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital, but I rarely see victims die of heroin overdose because most fatalities occur before patients get to the hospital. Overdoses often take place over one to three hours. People just slowly stop breathing; often they are assumed to be sleeping deeply, or they are alone.

  • NJ.com: Fentanyl outbreak reaches NJ: Police say tainted heroin led to 9 overdoses, deaths

    Posted 2/6/2014

    At least nine people have died or been hospitalized in NJ in recent months after overdosing on fentanyl-laced heroin, and law enforcement officials say they fear the potent synthetic chemical, which has been linked to dozens of deaths in the Northeast, is spreading like wildfire throughout the Garden State.

  • Angelo M. Valente, Ex. Dir. PDFNJ, Featured on Fox News' Geraldo at Large

    Posted 12/16/2013

    Angelo Valente, Executive Director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey was featured on Geraldo At Large to discuss the heroin abuse epidemic along with Angela Cicchino, a recovering heroin addict.