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A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows

Paige Blankenbuehler

August 08, 2016 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

The over-prescription of pain medicine has been a problem in southwest Colorado. Collective efforts of health care providers to standardize opioid prescriptions, clinics to expand recovery programs, and law enforcement to encourage addicts to enter rehab rather than prison, have reduced over-prescriptions of pain medications. However, they also could be unintentionally causing a rise in heroin use.

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How a police chief used compassion to combat his community's drug problem

Leah Todd Lin

August 08, 2016 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Rather than put addicts in jail, a police station in Gloucester, Massachusetts helps get those in need into treatment centers. Now, communities all over the country, including the town of Española, New Mexico, treat addiction with empathy and urgency rather than jail time. The change in treatment has reduced drug-related crime as well as deaths from overdose.

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Colorado's rural area leaders contemplating controversial needle exchange program

Matt Hildner

August 06, 2016 |

The Pueblo Chieftain |

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Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

Officials in the San Luis Valley are testing the use of a needle-exchange program as a risk prevention measure for users of heroin and other injected drugs, providing addicts with access to a broader menu of services.

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The Town that Tried it All

Leah Todd Lin

August 05, 2016 |

Small Towns Big Change |

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Response Location: United States, Española, New Mexico

The Santa Fe Mountain Center uses harm reduction strategies such as needle exchanges and providing naloxone and other supplies for safer drug use, to help those struggling with addiction. These strategies aim to reduce unnecessary harm while building trust to help people enter treatment when they’re ready. In the past year, the Center collected over one million needles, gave out more than 3,000 doses of naloxone and recorded over 700 successful overdose referrals.

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New Initiative Aims To Address Opiate Addiction From Multiple Angles

Megan Kamerick

August 05, 2016 |

KNME-PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Española, New Mexico

Heroin and opiate addiction is a growing problem across the country, but it’s also a familiar concern in Rio Arriba county. Local health officials have tried for years to reduce the number of overdose deaths in the county. A new initiative called Pathways aims to bring new resources to the fight, but not everyone agrees that it’s the best approach.

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Pathways to recovery

Leah Todd Lin

August 05, 2016 |

Small Towns Big Change |

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Response Location: United States, Rio Arriba, New Mexico

In Española, New Mexico, a state-funded program called the Pathways Community HUB Model brings law enforcement, health care providers, and treatment centers together to make sure they have a whole picture of each addiction patient's medical and criminal background. The program allows all entities to have access to a single database with medical and criminal records, allowing people working to combat addiction in the community to have a better idea of each patient's story.

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How to get a treatment that works into “every medicine cabinet”

John Calef

August 05, 2016 |

Santa Fe Public Radio (KSFR) |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

Opioid overdoses have increased across the United States and rural areas have more difficult access to receive proper treatment. Narcan or Naloxone is a treatment for opioid overdose that is more accessible now to rural communities in New Mexico, offering more expedient emergency response.

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Meet the Ex-Inmate Whose Successful Prison Rehab Program Goes Beyond Drug Treatment

Melissa Hellmann

August 04, 2016 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, California

Led by peers and providing everything from group therapy to tips on how to build credit, the Timelist program works with the recently paroled as well as the presently incarcerated to reduce recidivism. Seven years after it started, Timelist’s comprehensive approach has a perfect record of it’s graduates staying out of prison.

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Questa program reframes opioid treatment in rural New Mexico

JR Logan

August 04, 2016 |

The Taos News |

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Response Location: United States, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

A comprehensive rehabilitation facility in Taos, New Mexico uses a holistic approach to curbing addiction by offering group therapy along with traditional medical treatment. By addressing deeper mental and emotional factors that can lead to addiction, the Questa Health Center has enabled addicts to face their demons head-on, with constant support.

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Roanoke initiative shifts from arresting addicts to helping them

Amy Friedenberger

July 21, 2016 |

The Roanoke Times |

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Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

In one year, the drug overdoses in Roanoke, VA have taken 12 lives and another 76 have overdosed but survived. The police department developed a new program called the Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative, designed to provide rehabilitation without arrest for those who seek it. The program simulates the successful national effort to help drug abusers instead of incarcerating them.

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