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  • Can Emergency Rooms Solve the Opioid Epidemic?

    January 23, 2018 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Emergency rooms across the country are initiating programs that address addiction and substance abuse. Usually emergency rooms are not equipped with mental health counselors, but to curb the opioid crisis, several are seeing increased uptake into therapy and programs when there are counselors available in the emergency rooms.

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  • Drug crisis in Ohio: What solutions are making a difference?

    January 23, 2018 |

    Dayton Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dayton, Ohio

    As a state, Ohio has shifted time and resources towards fighting the opioid addiction crisis, with many agencies, organizations and people collaborating on solutions. The standout solution thus far has been the Community Overdose Action Team which combines efforts to work on "eight focus areas from increasing treatment accessibility to decreasing the illegal supply of drugs."

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  • Domestic Violence court offers alternatives, hope for future

    January 22, 2018 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a domestic violence court offers funnels perpetrators into programs that offer counseling and other services to address the root causes of their behavior. Its two tracks focus on first-time offenders to short-circuit any escalation into chronic abuse, as well as those with multiple domestic violence charges. Judges work closely with participants to encourage them and call them out when they aren't meeting their obligations, and recidivism rates among those who complete the programs are far lower than those who do not.

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  • Born Into Rehab: Giving Life to West Virginia's Tiniest Opioid Victims

    January 17, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntington, West Virginia

    In Huntington, West Virginia, the opioid epidemic – which has graced headlines nationwide – is disproportionately impacting newborns, earning the city the highest rate of infant cases in nation. In response to this crisis, local hospital employees have opened a Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome clinic to help serve the overflow of newborns that the hospital can't handle.

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  • States require doctors to use prescription drug monitoring systems for patients

    January 15, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescription drug mointoring programs provide a doctor with information about a patient’s prescriptions and—in some states—drug-related hospitalizations and arrests. With this tool, doctors are better able to identify drug-seeking behavior and intervene with at risk patients.

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  • Iceland has largely kicked teen drinking. What can it teach other countries?

    December 29, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    In the late 1990s, Iceland had both a high rate of teen alcohol abuse and a lackadaisical attitude towards that abuse. Responses to these issues included instituting a curfew, investment in after school activities, and programs to change parent attitudes. The result has been a large decrease in alcohol use among teens and a strengthening of family relationships.

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  • The Stigma

    December 28, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    For the tens of thousands of individuals struggling with opioid addiction in the United States, breaking their drug habit is never easy, and is often inhibited even by fellow addicts in recovery programs who stigmatize the use of prescribed medications to aid the recovery process, despite their measured success. In Philadelphia, a group called Porch Light is the city's first ever 12-step program to embrace those on a medication-assisted recovery journey, helping to break stigmas and encourage those on the path to a clean start.

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  • He overcame drug addiction. Now he works to save the lives of other addicts on the street

    December 27, 2017 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    The state of Utah passed legislation in 2016 that made Naloxone, a life-saving overdose reversal drug, available over the counter to non-medical personnel as part of an initiative to reduce opioid related overdose deaths. An organization called One Voice Recovery brings Naloxone kits to addicts in heavily drug addicted areas in an attempt to reduce harm. In addition, One Voice Recovery helps addicts who want to seek treatment get the help they need.

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  • Lessons from Seattle: How this alternative to jail may be a solution for Utah

    December 20, 2017 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    A program piloted in Seattle and now replicated in several cities nationwide aims to redirect low-level drug offenders into a case management system that can help them change their lives by connecting them with social services and advocating for their wellbeing. The program is called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD, and police officers can direct people into it if they are suspected of having committed a drug crime.

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  • Portugal's radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn't the world copied it?

    December 05, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Portugal, Olhão

    After the fall of an oppressive and isolating regime, Portugal found itself utterly unprepared to deal with the rapid distribution of narcotics in the 1980s, creating a crisis that left 1 in every 10 people struggling with addiction. The country took a radical approach to rectifying opioid use through a huge cultural shift in the way it viewed and treated addicts - prioritizing support services and pioneering programs like needle-exchange and substitution therapy, and eventually decriminalizing hard drugs so that users could more easily get help, and drug rates have since plummeted.

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