Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
30 November 2021
Rio Arriba, New Mexico, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Since 2018, Judge Jason Lidyard of Rio Arriba County, N.M., has forged a new model for a drug court. Instead of demanding abstinence from drugs as the price to stay out of jail, Lidyard uses respect and personal relat...
8 November 2021
North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community health workers with North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program (NC FIT) counsel people recently released from jails and prisons to help them get the care they need for mental and physical health...
Next City
Juan Moreno Haines
15 October 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To combat opioid overdose deaths among incarcerated people, the California prison system in January 2020 launched a treatment program that combines medication-assisted treatment with professional and peer counseling. ...
9 September 2021
Eagle, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Eagle County's two problem-solving courts put treatment ahead of punishment when addressing crimes committed by people with substance abuse problems. Originally set up as one court, they now function separately to add...
1 September 2021
Wellington, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Harvest Farm is an experiential recovery program that helps men experiencing homelessness and struggling with substance abuse achieve sobriety and become self-sufficient with stable work and housing. The program is fr...
31 August 2021
Timmins, Ontario, Canada
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800-1500 Words
Paramedics with Cochrane District Emergency Medical Services distribute naloxone kits and provide education wherever they are. From coffee shops to their emergency calls on the street, paramedics distribute 20 to 40 n...
29 August 2021
Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
Blanchet House is a nonprofit that provides food and housing for people in need. Men who are recovering from substance abuse can live at the farm and have an opportunity to work on the land and learn skills that promo...
29 July 2021
Alamosa, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Alamosa County, law enforcement officers who believe drug abuse is at the root of a person's criminal behavior can refer that person to treatment and other services, rather than arresting and jailing them. The Law ...
21 July 2021
Ferndale, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Lummi Tribal council created Sche'lang'en Village to provide a supportive community for Native families that have been torn apart by the foster system, drugs, or domestic violence. The more than 30 families accept...
22 June 2021
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
In less than three and a half years, Safeworks, the only supervised drug-use site in Calgary, saved thousands of people from opioid-overdose deaths and helped users for whom abstinence-based treatment didn't work. The...
26 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
A pilot program in Philadelphia’s transit system is providing social services for people struggling with addiction. Loitering violations in and around SEPTA stations are on the rise in the wake of the pandemic, spurri...
21 May 2021
Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Indiana partnered with Overdose Lifeline to make the overdose reversal medication naloxone available via NaloxBoxes. The boxes, which are placed in neutral public areas that aren’t intimidating, hold several kits that...
14 May 2021
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
People in two New Jersey counties who were at risk of abusing opioids while on parole were given extra support services, and an immediate trip to rehab instead of back to prison when they slipped up. The pilot program...
6 May 2021
Columbus, Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The Bartholomew County Jail's drug treatment program started in January 2020 with a rigorous application process, followed by about 400 hours of group and individual therapy for incarcarcerated people with drug abuse ...
4 May 2021
United States
Radio Talk Show
5-15 Minutes
Bupreneophine (also known as Suboxone) is a highly effective medication to treat opioid use disorder and addiction. It is life-saving, both in reducing the risk of fatal overdoses and helping people function better as...
29 April 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Tucson Police Department's Substance Use Resource Team reaches out on the streets to people with substance-use disorder, offering them treatment instead of arrest and jail. The team is an extension of the department's...
Portland Tribune
Jim Redden
28 April 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
Multnomah County sold its unused Wapato Jail to a developer whose nonprofit partner has used grants and donations to turn the former jail into Bybee Lakes Hope Center, a residential treatment program for unhoused peop...
16 April 2021
Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Maine, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Like standard drug courts, the Penobscot Nation's Healing to Wellness Court refers people facing drug-related criminal charges to substance abuse counseling as an alternative to punishment. But this court and other tr...
13 April 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Mecklenburg County district attorney stopped prosecuting non-violent, low-level drug cases to free up resources to handle a backlog of more serious cases that built up during the pandemic. The policy had the effec...
31 March 2021
Portugal
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In the 20 years since Portugal decriminalized possession of personal amounts of all drugs, deaths from HIV and overdoses declined and more people take advantage of expanded drug treatment programs. Treating the countr...
22 March 2021
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Acting on a recognition that police and the criminal justice system are too involved in responses to mental health and substance abuse crises, UCHealth formed mental health response teams that partner with Fort Collin...
19 March 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Broadcast TV Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
In its first month of operation, Portland Street Response Team began intervening with people on the streets who are experiencing substance abuse or mental health problems. The program, modeled on Eugene, Oregon's CAHO...
5 March 2021
New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Medically assisted treatment is proven to reduce fatal opioid overdoses, particularly among formerly incarcerated people. When people are denied treatment in jail or prison and then resume their previous doses once th...
26 January 2021
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Diversity in Recovery created an inclusive space for the LGBTQ community, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, and allies, many of whom report negative experiences because of their race, sexuality, and/or gen...
The Laconia Daily Sun
Roberta Baker
25 January 2021
Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Compass House provides safety and support for women, many of them newly released from incarceration, who struggle with substance misuse issues or mental illness. The transitional housing program is the first of its ki...
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