In the News
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cbsnews.com - Issues That Matter: How state attorneys general are tackling the opioid crisis
Posted 10/24/2017
As part of our ongoing series, Issues That Matter, we take a closer look at America's opioid crisis with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. He called out drug companies for being the "supply chain" that enabled the epidemic and Congress for their lack of action against those companies.
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centraljersey.com: East Windsor to once again participate in 'Operation Medicine Cabinet'
Posted 10/19/2017
East Windsor Township will participate in the New Jersey Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sponsored program “Operation Medicine Cabinet” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The program offers residents the opportunity to dispose of all unused, unwanted and expired prescription medications in a safe manner.
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nj.com: How fentanyl went from obscurity to N.J.'s most dangerous drug
Posted 10/19/2017
In the mid-2000s, the New Jersey Poison Control Center noticed an alarming pattern. Dozens of people dropped dead in the Camden area after taking fentanyl, a then-obscure-but-powerful synthetic opioid that was being used as a lacing agent in local batches of heroin.
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nj.com - Attorney General: Why N.J. is cracking down on doctors, drugmakers in opioid fight
Posted 10/19/2017
TRENTON — With heroin and opioid painkiller overdoses on the rise in New Jersey, state authorities are cracking down on doctors prescribing painkillers and the pharmaceutical companies that make them.
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jerseyshoreonline.com: Volunteers Go Door-To-Door To Fight Drug Abuse
Posted 10/19/2017
BRICK – Thousands of volunteers in New Jersey delivered door hangers containing information about opioid abuse prevention to thousands of homes for the second annual Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day.
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pharmacytimes.com: New Jersey Veterinarians Urged to Help Prevent Abuse of Pet Prescriptions
Posted 10/19/2017
Officials with the New Jersey Attorney General’s office are calling on veterinarians to help combat the opioid epidemic, announcing stricter guidelines aimed at preventing individuals from abusing prescription medications meant for their pets.
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northjersey.com - Opioid crisis: Painkiller restrictions are helping addiction fight, attorney general says
Posted 10/19/2017
FRANKLIN LAKES — Christopher Porrino, the state attorney general, outlined Wednesday night his office’s plan to battle New Jersey’s heroin epidemic by tightening restrictions on prescription painkillers whose legal use so often leads people down the path to illicit addiction.
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cbsnews.com: Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress
Posted 10/17/2017
Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities -- knowing that people were dying -- and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it
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cbsnews.com: The opioid epidemic as seen in 6 charts
Posted 10/17/2017
Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection.
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statnews.com: Online sellers of designer drugs are a dark partner in the opioid epidemic
Posted 10/17/2017
One of Max’s friends taught him an easy way to buy shady drugs. What he learned almost killed him, and it opened my eyes to a hiding-in-plain-sight source of dangerous drugs that is amplifying the opioid epidemic.