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Free heroin? Unusual clinic offers 'chance at being human again'

Leonardo Palleja Nick Purdon

June 09, 2019 |

CBC |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver

In Vancouver, a program at the Crosstown Clinic is combatting drug overdoses by administering low-dose heroin to people who use drugs to keep them from experiencing withdrawal symptoms. The idea behind this approach is to treat the addiction like a medical problem rather than a criminal one.

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A path to success

Angela K. Evans

May 30, 2019 |

Boulder Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

In Colorado, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing have partnered to help former incarcerated individuals obtain Medicaid upon re-entry. The partnership allows for data sharing between the two departments to make sure people are leaving correctional facilities with health care in hand, and trains parole officers to help them enroll and use the benefits.

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Colorado's Opioid Crisis Slows, In Part Because Of a Drug That Reverses Overdoses

John Daley

May 28, 2019 |

Colorado Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Increasing the availability of naloxone reduces the number of deaths from opioid overdose. In Colorado, the Naloxone for Life initiative, which began in 2016, has distributed thousands of kits to emergency first responders and has also made the medication available without a prescription. As a result, paramedics have used the medication to reverse several hundred overdoses in Colorado, administering over 700 doses in Denver in 2018 alone.

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How a new district attorney is shaking up the justice system in midcoast Maine

Beth Brogan

May 28, 2019 |

Bangor Daily News |

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Response Location: United States, Knox, Maine

The newly-elected district attorney in Maine, Natasha Irving, has started implementing restorative justice practices into the area’s criminal justice system. The use of restorative justice in this case includes offering mental health and substance abuse treatment, amongst other supportive services, and using prison as a last resort. There has been some pushback from law enforcement, but a willingness to try the new approach aimed at reducing recidivism in the region.

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"A sense of belonging" for Latinxs in recovery at the West Kensington Ministry

Diana Cristancho

May 28, 2019 |

Temple University |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For members of the Latinx community seeking treatment for substance abuse, much needed resources, like Spanish-speaking counselors, can be hard to come by at recovery centers. In Philadelphia, faith-based organizations like West Kensington Ministry are filling the gaps by providing peer and community support.

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What we learned from looking at Santa Cruz County's needle exchange

Kara Meyberg Guzman

May 24, 2019 |

Santa Cruz Local |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Santa Cruz, California

Throughout California, there are various needle exchange programs that are meant to reduce the likelihood of spreading communicable diseases through the use of dirty needles. Although often met with criticism, Santa Cruz County it focusing on what is working in other areas of the state in order to better serve their community.

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Moms find redemption and reunification at the Willows

Shawne K. Wickham

May 11, 2019 |

New Hampshire Union Leader |

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Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire is seeing early success with a new program that helps keep mothers battling addiction in contact with their children. Based on the premise that keeping parents connected with their child during their addiction recovery will result in more successful recoveries, the program provides the supports for overnight visits and consistent contact.

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Treatment for Opioid Addiction, With No Strings Attached

Beth Schwartzapfel

May 10, 2019 |

The Marshall Project |

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Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

When treating opioid addiction, the typical approach is medication in conjunction with mandatory therapy sessions and a myriad of other check-ins. Realizing that this method was failing many people that were not able to make these sessions, some clinics are reversing the approach by focusing on a medication-first approach.

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Opioids in prison: How one state's success could work in Maine

Daniel Lampariello

May 02, 2019 |

WGME-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

Maine is looking to pilot what has been a successful inmate drug rehabilitation program in Rhode Island. Based on the premise that providing controlled doses of the drugs will decrease overdoses, the Medicated Assisted Treatment program has "showed a 60 percent decrease in drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island among those who were recently incarcerated."

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California Fights Vaping in Schools

Lauren Katims

April 30, 2019 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: United States, Laguna Beach, California

As illnesses associated with vaping continue to be on the rise, schools in California are tackling the problem through peer-to-peer educational campaigns, anti-vaping curriculums and research papers. For the most part, these efforts have been reactive, but schools are now looking to start these solutions earlier as a preventative measure.

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