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  • A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows

    August 08, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

    The over-prescription of pain medicine has been a problem in southwest Colorado. Collective efforts of health care providers to standardize opioid prescriptions, clinics to expand recovery programs, and law enforcement to encourage addicts to enter rehab rather than prison, have reduced over-prescriptions of pain medications. However, they also could be unintentionally causing a rise in heroin use.

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  • Colorado's rural area leaders contemplating controversial needle exchange program

    August 06, 2016 |

    The Pueblo Chieftain |

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    Response Location: United States, Alamosa, Colorado

    Officials in the San Luis Valley are testing the use of a needle-exchange program as a risk prevention measure for users of heroin and other injected drugs, providing addicts with access to a broader menu of services.

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  • How to get a treatment that works into “every medicine cabinet”

    August 05, 2016 |

    Santa Fe Public Radio (KSFR) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Opioid overdoses have increased across the United States and rural areas have more difficult access to receive proper treatment. Narcan or Naloxone is a treatment for opioid overdose that is more accessible now to rural communities in New Mexico, offering more expedient emergency response.

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  • Pathways to recovery

    August 05, 2016 |

    Small Towns Big Change |

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    Response Location: United States, Rio Arriba, New Mexico

    In Española, New Mexico, a state-funded program called the Pathways Community HUB Model brings law enforcement, health care providers, and treatment centers together to make sure they have a whole picture of each addiction patient's medical and criminal background. The program allows all entities to have access to a single database with medical and criminal records, allowing people working to combat addiction in the community to have a better idea of each patient's story.

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  • New Initiative Aims To Address Opiate Addiction From Multiple Angles

    August 05, 2016 |

    KNME-PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Española, New Mexico

    Heroin and opiate addiction is a growing problem across the country, but it’s also a familiar concern in Rio Arriba county. Local health officials have tried for years to reduce the number of overdose deaths in the county. A new initiative called Pathways aims to bring new resources to the fight, but not everyone agrees that it’s the best approach.

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  • Questa program reframes opioid treatment in rural New Mexico

    August 04, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

    A comprehensive rehabilitation facility in Taos, New Mexico uses a holistic approach to curbing addiction by offering group therapy along with traditional medical treatment. By addressing deeper mental and emotional factors that can lead to addiction, the Questa Health Center has enabled addicts to face their demons head-on, with constant support.

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  • Meet the Ex-Inmate Whose Successful Prison Rehab Program Goes Beyond Drug Treatment

    August 04, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Led by peers and providing everything from group therapy to tips on how to build credit, the Timelist program works with the recently paroled as well as the presently incarcerated to reduce recidivism. Seven years after it started, Timelist’s comprehensive approach has a perfect record of it’s graduates staying out of prison.

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  • Roanoke initiative shifts from arresting addicts to helping them

    July 21, 2016 |

    The Roanoke Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    In one year, the drug overdoses in Roanoke, VA have taken 12 lives and another 76 have overdosed but survived. The police department developed a new program called the Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative, designed to provide rehabilitation without arrest for those who seek it. The program simulates the successful national effort to help drug abusers instead of incarcerating them.

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  • Treating alcoholics - with wine

    July 07, 2016 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ottawa

    The recommended treatment for chronic alcoholism is abstinence. But at the Oaks - a permanent home for those who once lived on the streets - residents are given a measure of wine at hourly intervals. It is called the Managed Alcohol Program, and aims to change the drinking behaviour of inveterate addicts.

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  • Ugly Is the New Look for Cigarette Packs

    July 05, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    During the twentieth century, imagery on cigarette packs communicated that smoking was cool and young, and it encouraged young people, as well as adults, to smoke. In 2012, Australia started “unbranding the pack,” which standardized cigarettes without a brand and showed the physically gruesome effects of smoking with health factoids on the packaging. Since then, the World Health Organization has recommended this new kind of packaging and the idea has spread to other countries to scale the success.

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