Over the last year and a half we’ve come together to host community events, met with elected officials and worked to win expanded access to the lifesaving overdose reversal drug Naloxone and Medication Assisted Treatment.
Tell your Reps: End Overdose NOW!
End Overdose NOW! Tell Your Reps to End Overdose and Expand Access to Treatment SEND A LETTER Imagine a world where we have what we need to overcome our challenges, …
Kill the X-Waiver!
Tell Congressman Pallone to Expand Access to Medication Assisted Treatment. SIGN PETITION As loved ones, people in recovery, and people who use drugs united to end the overdose crisis, we …
Care Our Communities Deserve
No matter what we look like or where we come from, the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that at our core, we are all human. Our ability to get and stay well depends on everyone having what we need to prevent, treat, and recover from illness. But when it comes to the overdose crisis ravaging our communities, a powerful few try to distract us from the role they’ve played in letting drug corporations flood our communities with painkillers while writing the rules in their favor to price life saving medications out of our reach.
What we need in our time to end the Overdose Crisis
By Eileen Palazza In the time that it takes you to read this article another person in New Jersey will die from an opioid overdose. And then another and then …
Fighting for Solutions: Ending the Overdose Crisis
Did you know that eight New Jerseyans lose their lives to a preventable overdose death everyday? That’s eight mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and siblings suddenly gone everyday, over 3,000 …
Ending Overdose: Problems and Solutions
By Lisa Campanella The seeds of the opioid crisis were planted in the 1990’s by big pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma that ruthlessly and criminally promoted the use of opioid …
We need to do more to address the addiction crisis
BY HEATHER SHAPTER Addiction is crippling. Toward the end I was using against my will. I was scared to be sick and go through withdrawal, so I continued getting high. …