Shared from Jersey Shore Online By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – International Overdose Awareness Day was observed in Whiting recently. The event honored loved ones lost to overdose throughout the state....
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Sea Change Caps Successful Summer With Funding to Continue Recovery Work
Shared from The SandPaper By Victoria Ford The LBI-based Sea Change Recovery Community Organization received a $50,000 grant from the Rx Foundation for its “visionary work of creating an intersection of community-based...
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Increase access to addiction medicines
Increase access to addiction medicines / Letter to the Editor, NJ.com When you last heard from me, I called on Congress to stop sitting on a bill to save lives....
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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...
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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.
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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,...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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Now more than ever, we need to stand up and speak out in the name of those we have lost to preventable overdose deaths; and with loved ones who are still with us.