Florida recently used $5 million in U.S. Department of Labor funding to create a pilot program to address the health and economic impacts of substance and opioid use. The program, Support to Commun...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration recently awarded a $197,668 grant to Pennsylvania’s Edinboro University’s Sc...
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As of Oct. 21, South Carolinian firefighters administered opioid overdose antidotes to 200 people this year. The firefighters administered nasal naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an over...
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The federal State Opioid Response Grant awarded nearly $853,000 to five New York state providers to purchase and operate mobile treatment vehicles. Two types of mobile treatment vehicles are used i...
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U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced his state would receive more than $7.8 million in federal grant money to combat substance use disorder. The grant awards, funded by the U.S. Department of Jus...
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Researchers at the University of Kentucky may have developed a multidisciplinary plan to treat those with opioid use disorder, a new study indicates. In 2018, the researchers treated 400 people wh...
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The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs recently awarded more than $1.5 million to two Northeastern Illinois counties to combat opioid and stimulant abuse. Kane County receiv...
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Opioid overdose deaths in Oregon spiked nearly 70 percent during April and May compared to the same period last year. In addition, overdose deaths during the first quarter of the year increased b...
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Two bills addressing mental health care in Pennsylvania recently were sent to Gov. Tom Wolf to be signed into law. House Bill 1439 amends The Insurance Company Law of 1921 to assure that residents ...
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Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said a new report from his office and the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shows that the opioid epidemic is a serious public health emergency, being ma...
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Pennsylvania recently expanded the PA Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI) to include Dauphin and Northumberland counties. The initiative assists residents suffering from substance use disor...
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The Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative recently awarded a $917,368 grant to Fayette County, Pa. Fund...
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced their state had received more than $7.8 million in federal funding from the U.S. Dept. of Justice to support treatment for substance use di...
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (R-KY) announced Volunteers of America Mid-States (VOA) would receive $700,000 in grant funding to support fami...
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The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs recently awarded the Northern District of West Virginia $8.9 million to fight drug abuse and addiction. Funding was divided between four org...
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U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) warned that the opioid epidemic is worsening in New Jersey last week due to continued stressors brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gottheimer said that, acc...
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States should expand naloxone distribution in order to reach polysubstance users and abusers, says Beth Connolly, project director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ substance use prevention and treatmen...
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra urged his state’s four largest health insurance providers to show they are complying with state and federal mental health parity laws Thursday. In a le...
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The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)’s Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative recently awarded Wayne County, Pa., a $1.5 million grant. F...
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Officials with the Michigan Poison Center at the Wayne State University School of Medicine are warning the public that a new “purple heroin” has been linked to several deaths in that state. Ac...
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