Teaching Friends And Family How To Reverse A Drug Overdose
Graham-Farmer knew what to do that day because, as of 2012, the whole staff at the residential drug treatment program where she works (Samaritan Village in Richmond Hill, Queens) has been trained to use Narcan, and to keep a rescue kit containing two … Read more on WFAE

What drug treatment in Delaware looks like
Additionally, the state's health department has requested more than $ 4 million in next year's budget to support programs aimed at expanding the bed space and access to treatment centers statewide as well as curbing teenage prescription drug use. Read more on The News Journal

Philly is 'mecca for people in recovery'
Ford has spent 20 years as a community liaison for the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services on 8th Street near Market, where he gets uninsured and under-insured drug and alcohol addicts into recovery programs. Read more on Philly.com

Riverview Hospital Will Host New Rehab Program For Addiction, Mental Health
Client services will include programs for ongoing support, assessment, crisis intervention, co-ordinated psychiatric and medical treatment, life-and-social skills, drug-and-alcohol recovery, jobs skills, education and peer support, said Lake. "By … Read more on Huffington Post Canada

N.J. heroin crisis: Senate, Assembly pass bills that would expand Narcan …
Both the state Assembly and Senate passed bills which would bolster mental health and addiction services for prison inmates, create a report card ranking substance abuse treatment centers for the public and extend immunity to emergency responders and … Read more on NJ.com

Difficulties making diagnoses only add to challenges
There are people who try to take advantage of the subjectivity of pain and the fact it can't be proven by faking it to get prescriptions for narcotics, which they abuse or sell to other drug users. Conversely, doctors can be overly suspicious that … Read more on Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

NJ Assembly Bill Package to Prevent Prescription Drug & Opioid Abuse Gains …
“This package includes evidence-based health care strategies aimed at both preventing addiction and targeting the myriad physical and emotional issues associated with recovery,” said Herb Conaway, M.D. (D-Burlington), chair of the Assembly Health and … Read more on Bergen Dispatch

Drug disposal program coming to Indiana
The Yellow Jugs Old Drugs Program works together with local pharmacies and the Indiana Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force to provide secure drug disposal. Pharmacies across Indiana will receive letters this week inviting them to join the program, which … Read more on WTHI

Drug program expands to Indiana
"I think any program that allows people more options is great, we saw a need, it's great that the state is actually seeing a need that way they can expand this out throughout the state," says Under Sheriff Sean Holmes of the Elkhart County Sheriff's … Read more on Fox 28

Indiana addicts trapped in rehab backlog
I-Team 8's investigation found just five Hoosier substance abuse programs receive the bulk of state funding designated for low-income inpatient substance abuse treatment. Combined, those five facilities have a total of just 88 beds available at any … Read more on WISH-TV

Bills to Prevent Rx Drug, Opioid Abuse Gain Bipartisan Panel's Approval
TRENTON – Bipartisan legislation to help address the prescription drug and opioid abuse epidemic plaguing the state was advanced Dec. 4 by an Assembly panel. Part of an ongoing effort to create awareness, prevent abuse and promote recovery, the five … Read more on Cape May County Herald (press release)

Holiday stress can increase chances of alcohol abuse
Holiday celebrations that include alcohol can put extra stress on those battling or recovering from alcohol addiction — and their families. "Around the holidays, alcohol abounds at parties and family gatherings," said David Buys, health specialist … Read more on SunHerald.com (press release)

On Queen Anne, Recovery School Plans Stir Controversy
When teenagers with substance abuse problems get out of rehab and return to school, studies show that it's likely that their peers will offer them drugs within the very first hour. That makes staying clean — or staying in school — difficult. Teens … Read more on KUOW News and Information

The conservative case for reforming the police in America
Demonstrators march in Miami to protest police abuse. The protest was one of many that have take … Those laws imposed draconian sentences for drug offenses and set the tone for a wave of similar tough-on-crime measures that spread around the country … Read more on Dallas Morning News

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Ibsen said they thought he had a substance abuse problem. “In order to save my job I had to go to the … According to Ramirez, Ibsen's third wife filed a referral in 2006, and Ibsen was evaluated twice by two outside agencies. Ibsen complied with the … Read more on Helena Independent Record

Allen to unveil bills aimed at building workforce
Bipartisan legislation to help address the prescription drug and opioid abuse epidemic plaguing New Jersey advanced Thursday by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee. “This package includes evidence-based health care strategies aimed at … Read more on Cherry Hill Courier Post

[UPDATED] PSAs to target high rate of Rx drug abuse among local youth
Students at Helena and East Helena schools have the chance to submit a 30-second public service announcement explaining the dangers of prescription drug use to teens or sharing information about youth drug abuse and proper storage techniques for … Read more on Helena Independent Record

The epic Rolling Stone gang-rape fallout — and how major publications get it …
The stories reported on an increase in the crime rate, a drug dealer receiving a 40-year sentence, vast new drug traffic via Turkey, an indictment of a Northeast man on a drug count, hearings on heroin use by patients dying of cancer, a life sentence … Read more on Washington Post

Port Huron community fights drug epidemic
Colby and one of his past clients, Melissa Latham, are starting Blue Water Families Against Narcotics, a grassroots group that provides support, education and resource information to addicts, their families and the community affected by the trend. "We … Read more on SunHerald.com