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Direct service providers, policy experts, and civil rights advocates oppose fentanyl penalty increases at Senate Judiciary Committee

Today, 150+ recovery specialists, harm reduction providers, and policy experts opposed proposals to increase penalties for fentanyl (S-3325 and S-3096) through testimony and slips of opposition. Organizations submitting their opposition include ACLU-NJ, NAACP-NJST, Latino Action Network Foundation, Salvation and Social Justice, Newark Community Street Team, National Center for Advocacy and Recovery,Northern New Jersey MAT Center of Excellence, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, Make The Road New Jersey, Office of African American Gay Concerns, South Jersey AIDS Alliance, New Jersey Organizing Project, New Jersey Policy Perspective, and New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition.

This bill could reduce overdose deaths. Why is Congress sitting on it? | Opinion

No matter where we were born or what we look like, everyone deserves to be able to heal and be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what they’re going through — and that includes struggles with substance use disorder. The main way we can reduce overdose deaths is to provide access to treatment and support for people at risk of overdose.

New Jersey expands access to overdose antidote naloxone to mark Overdose Awareness Day

Tuesday marked Overdose Awareness Day. The Murphy administration marked the day by expanding access to naloxone – a drug that helps reverse an opioid overdose.

Groups lobby state for American Rescue Plan billions

In the second of the Murphy administration’s two online hearings about how the state should spend its $6.2 billion American Rescue Plan grant, representatives of teachers, essential workers, business owners, undocumented workers and more asked for millions for their constituencies.

New Jersey Organizing Project Hails Assembly Passage of Legislative Package Expanding Access to Treatment.

Amanda Devecka-Rinear, Executive Director of the New Jersey Organizing Project, has issued the following statement in response to the Legislature’s passage of a package of bills designed to expand access to treatment for New Jerseyans experiencing substance use disorder:

‘My son … is not expendable’: More must be done to end the overdose crisis

When I read a recently published article titled ‘NJ’s fatal drug overdoses stay flat as nation’s numbers soar’ by Ken Serrano, my heart sank and I felt angry. My son Ryan is one of thousands of people in NJ we have lost to a preventable overdose. Overdose deaths are entirely preventable.

Sea Change to Offer a New Way of Recovering From Addiction, Together

Life coach, certified peer recovery specialist and Long Beach Township resident Elizabeth Burke Beaty believes no two people overcome addiction in exactly the same way. “There are as many different paths to recovery as there are different people in recovery,” she said. To that end, she is excited to share her latest endeavor in mental health and wellness: