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patriotledger.com: Hospital gives Milton schools $4,000 for drug abuse prevention
Posted 7/3/2018
MILTON — Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton recently awarded the Milton Public Schools two grants totaling $4,000 to help support behavioral health programs.
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baltimoresun.com: Harford holds annual drug prevention and treatment symposium
Posted 7/3/2018
Harford County held its annual Drug Prevention, Intervention & Treatment Symposium Thursday at Bel Air High School. This year’s day-long symposium featured speakers and workshops for adults and teenagers. This was the first year programs specifically geared to 14-18 year olds were presented.
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njspotlight.com: PREVENTION, RISK REDUCTION FOCUS OF FIRST NJ SPOTLIGHT OPIOID ROUNDTABLE
Posted 7/3/2018
State officials, medical professionals agree New Jersey has made a good start by trimming opioid prescriptions, but much more work remains
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wfmj.com: New guide for drug prevention in schools says no scare tactics, mock crashes
Posted 6/27/2018
A new resource guide for superintendents, teachers, and educators across the state of Ohio is shedding some light on the "best practices" for drug prevention lessons in the classroom.
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burlingtonfreepress.com: Daughter of Vermont man who died after struggling with drug addiction gives message of hope
Posted 6/27/2018
A recent high school graduate wants students to understand the terrible price of addiction before they lose everything including their lives, like her father did.
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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.