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  • When an Iowa Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic

    June 23, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Marshalltown, Iowa

    Primary care practioners are prescribing buprenorphine to patients struggling with opioid substance use disorder, providing a support for medication-assisted recovery. Practices use a team-based approach and grant funding to provide this support and overcome the challenges of limited staff capacity and insufficient reimbursement.

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  • Nebraska prisons playing major role in mental health care

    June 20, 2018 |

    Lincoln Journal Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Nebraska prisons house many of the state's mentally ill, and they are working on comprehensive care for them. Prisons work to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism through mentorship programs. The Mental Health Association runs programs in Nebraska prisons and trains peer supporters on the inside.

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  • Prescribing Opioids: How Many Are Too Many?

    June 19, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Doctors at Johns Hopkins and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School are striving to establish new guidelines that are specific to surgical procedure and patient circumstance for prescribing opioids. The general consensus is this: every patient's needs must be assessed individually, alternatives to opiates should always be considered first, and no patients with acute pain should ever be sent home with more than a few days' worth of opiates.

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  • Beyond Books: How Libraries Are the Latest Front in the Opioid Fight

    June 12, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Librarians across the nation are being trained to administer naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose. In Denver’s Central Library, 350 staff members were trained to administer the drug. “Libraries in New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Salt Lake County, Utah, among others, are also stocking the overdose reversal drug.”

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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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  • New Hampshire syringe programs: 'Meeting people where they're at'

    May 19, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New Hampshire

    Hand Up Health Services is a syringe services program that provides clean needles to addicts, also known as “needles exchange” programs. The program is only one of two in New Hampshire. While there's a lot of stigma behind these types of programs, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions shows that “ people who inject drugs are five times more likely to enter treatment if they connect with an SSP.”

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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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  • Healing

    May 12, 2018 |

    Temple University |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    To reduce the stigma around seeking treatment for addiction, the Interim House in Philadelphia provides a women-exclusive program that focus on treating past traumas through the use of dialectical behavior therapy. Based on the idea that women are more open to talking about their histories in women-only settings, the program increases trust between therapist and client as well as between the women attending the program.

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