The Ocean County Opioid Advisory Council convened a public forum on Tuesday, March 7 at the Southern Service Center in Manahawkin, where officials heard from members of grassroots nonprofit organizations...
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Sea Change RCO’s Dual Goal to Serve Recovery Community While Influencing Policy
Sea Change is more than a nonprofit recovery community organization. It’s a vehicle for change in the lives of those affected by substance use disorder, and it’s moving at high...
Read MoreSuperstorm Sandy’s sustained emotional toll on survivors
Elizabeth Burke Beaty with her husband Tom, their son Tommy, and dog Hank, in front of their belongings in Holgate, after Superstorm Sandy swept through their community in 2012. Burke...
Read MoreOverdose Awareness Day Observed In Ocean County in Jersey Shore Online
MANCHESTER – International Overdose Awareness Day was observed in Whiting recently. The event honored loved ones lost to overdose throughout the state.
Read MoreSea Change Caps Successful Summer With Funding to Continue Recovery Work
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 recovery services and advocacy/organizing for...
Read MoreIncrease 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....
Read MoreDirect 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreGroups 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,...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read More‘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...
Read MoreSea 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.