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  • The Opioid Solution

    June 05, 2018 |

    The Muhlenberg Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Allentown, Pennsylvania

    Although the opioid epidemic has spread across America, this story argues that local solutions are needed. In Allentown, when somebody overdoses on opioids, they get a visit from a Blue Guardian, a trained volunteer that connects the individual to treatment. The outreach program also focuses on reaching out to the families of addicts. In 2017, the program aided nearly 1,000 addicts to get treatment.

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  • ‘The Police Aren't Just Getting You In Trouble. They Actually Care.'

    June 02, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Gloucester, Massachusetts

    Police departments across eastern Massachusetts frustrated by the rising opioid epidemic decided to make themselves avenues to treatment rather than instruments of punishment. “It was pretty evident that we weren’t arresting our way out of anything.” The idea evolved into a national program called the Police-Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative with nearly 400 police departments helping thousands of people access drug treatment services across the country.

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  • Opioid Crisis Compels New York to Look North for Answers

    May 21, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Supervised injection sites in Canada have prevented hundreds of heroin overdose deaths. Now, New York City is looking to follow Canada's lead with a city-wide initiative to establish safe injection sites. While the Trump Administration is not in support of such sites, experts believe that it is unlikely that the federal government would interfere with a site if a city is in support of it.

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  • How one rural California county went from the state's highest rate of opioid deaths — to zero

    May 14, 2018 |

    Center for Health Journalism |

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    Response Location: United States, Portola, California

    Plumas County had one of the highest rates of opioid deaths in the state of California. So, 24 coalitions banded together and formed an umbrella group in order to address the problem. “Plumas County went from having the highest rate of overdoses in California to the lowest.”

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  • Reversing an Overdose

    May 12, 2018 |

    Temple University |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A significant spike in opioid-related overdose deaths in Philadelphia has resulted in more people in the community carrying Naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication. Thanks to a standing order signed by the Pennsylvania physician general as well as a local health insurance company, obtaining the drug has been made much easier which in turn results in more lives potentially being saved.

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  • We really do have a solution to the opioid epidemic — and one state is showing it works

    May 10, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    In order to tackle opioid addiction, the state of Virginia found a way to make drug treatment accessible to people with medicaid by boosting “reimbursement rates to addiction treatment providers.” Historically, drug treatment hasn’t been covered by health insurance. Virginia is changing that. Already, “the percent of Medicaid members with an opioid use disorder who received treatment went up by 29 percent from April to December 2017 compared to the same period the previous year.”

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  • Instagram's Queer Appalachia brings love — and services — to those who need it most

    May 10, 2018 |

    Mashable |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    The Queer Appalachia Instagram account has created a virtual community combating the isolation and fear that are often present in the lives of queer people living in Appalachia. In a region particularly hard-hit by the opioid crisis, it has also created a network of sponsors for those in recovery through a telehealth program managed by the account.

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  • Fighting for life: Coalition works to reduce opioid deaths and help addicts recover

    April 29, 2018 |

    Columbia Missourian |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbia, Missouri

    The Fighting for Life Coalition works to prevent overdose deaths in Missouri. From counseling to buprenorphine treatments, the group is committed to harm reduction principles of reducing harms even when people engage in dangerous behavior. The state also has a group that meets users in the hospital and mobilizes to get them started in treatment within 24 hours.

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  • How safe-injection sites work

    April 26, 2018 |

    WGME-TV |

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    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    The city of Montreal, Canada is testing how safe injection sites can be used in the fight against opioid overdoses. Montreal has 4 total sites, and one of them, called Cactus Montreal, has already supervised thousands of users in less than a year without a single death. Cactus is often busy with about 100 visitors each day, and they say that their services also prevent public injections and litter of used needles.

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  • France had a big heroin epidemic in the 1980s and '90s. Here's how the country fixed it.

    April 17, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: France

    When France changed their policy in 1995, and allowed primary care doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, an anti-drug medication that reduces cravings for opioids, a drastic change happened. “Within four years, overdose deaths had declined by 79 percent.”

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