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  • In high school, finding new 'people, places and things'

    May 04, 2017 |

    Temple University |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    When mother Rebecca Bonner's daughter had to seek treatment for an opioid addiction after her freshman year of high school, Bonner was worried about her daughter returning to the high school where her daughter's addiction began. After two relapses, Bonner decided to open Philadelphia's first recovery high school. There are several recovery high schools nationwide that accept sober students to help keep them in recovery.

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  • Protecting overdose witnesses with Good Samaritan Law

    May 04, 2017 |

    Temple University |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    During a drug overdose, some people avoid calling for medical assistance because they fear arrest. Laws that protect callers can help, but even where those laws exist, many drug users and potential overdose witnesses don’t realize they are protected.

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  • Philadelphia Treatment Court gives a 'second chance'

    May 04, 2017 |

    Temple University |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, people facing felony drug charges can opt for a yearlong program in a treatment court where their progress is monitored to ensure they avoid substance use, get treatment and stay in contact with their case managers. Judges presiding over the court work with those who miss those goals to help them reflect on how they can graduate, even if there are stumbles along the way. Those who successfully complete the program can work to get the felonies expunged from their records.

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  • Naloxone offers ‘immediate' assistance

    May 04, 2017 |

    Temple University |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Naloxone is a drug that reverses opioid overdose by pushing the opiates off of the brain's neurotransmitters. Naloxone has no negative effects on a person who is not overdosing, so there is no risk in administering it when an overdose is in question. The drug has recently become more widely available to police officers, first responders, and in some states, the general public.

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  • Erasing Gang Memories, One Laser Prick At A Time

    May 04, 2017 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Many immigrants come into the United States with visual representation of former gang involvement, preventing them from shedding their past mistakes. A group in Northern Virginia is helping these immigrants make life changes and prevent gang violence in their area.

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  • Behind the Headlines: Pennsylvania's Opioid Crisis Up-Close

    May 03, 2017 |

    Keystone Crossroads |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    More lives are being touched by sorrow as the opioid crisis continues to escalate. For mothers of addicts, recovered addicts, and addicts themselves, programs like Pathways to Housing and Prevention Point are bringing together this community in a effort to heal.

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  • Addiction doc says: It's not the drugs. It's the ACEs – adverse childhood experiences.

    May 02, 2017 |

    ACES Too High |

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    Response Location: United States

    ACEs quantifies the adverse event in an individual's childhood, as a means to treat addiction. Understanding addiction as resulting from past events helps to treat these individuals through medication and developing a plan to help each patient live a sober life without medications while de-shaming and de-blaming them.

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  • Battling Meth: A Rural Montana County is on the Frontline of National Foster Care Surge

    April 28, 2017 |

    The Chronicle of Social Change |

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    Response Location: United States, Lake County, Montana

    The drug crisis has reached new extremes in many parts of the country, as meth and opioids continue to tear families apart and funnel even more children into an already-strapped foster care system. In rural Montana, law enforcement and communities are trying a new approach to battling drug addiction, focusing on supportive family counseling and "drug courts" to help treat - rather than imprison - those struggling with addiction. In Lake County, Family Drug Treatment Courts are working to divert addicts from the vicious cycle and keep more families together.

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  • To fight domestic violence among Syrian refugees, an outreach to men

    April 26, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Syrian refugees have experienced an increase in domestic violence, and some men have projected their stresses onto women or their children. Instead of reprimanding the men, some aid organizations have set up support groups designed to help men channel their stress in different, healthier ways. The approach establishes new social norms in how men treat women and view their own masculinity.

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  • How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis

    April 25, 2017 |

    CBC |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Portugal

    After Portugal decriminalized personal possession and use of all drugs and replaced law enforcement responses with healthcare and harm-reduction practices, the country's heroin abuse rates and overdose deaths shrank significantly. A network of 40 publicly funded drug treatment centers, outreach teams making daily contact with people addicted to heroin, and an aggressive methadone delivery system are key components of the healthcare approach. Canada stands in contrast, with a severe fentanyl problem eased only some by local, spotty attempts at harm reduction.

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