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ADDICTION REHAB IS BROKEN. CAN TECHNOLOGY FIX IT?

Kevin

May 5, 2018
3 min

ADDICTION REHAB IS BROKEN. CAN TECHNOLOGY FIX IT?

Written by Zachary Siegel Published on WIRED l BackChannel l 04.01.18 My time in rehab for an opioid addiction left me humiliated and desperate to know why my friends were dying. Now a wave of app developers are trying to do things differently. MY DAD’S COMPANY had season tickets to the White Sox. On muggy Midwest summer days we’d go as a family—always sitting in the same seats, 25 rows above first base. I told this to a counselor I’ll call Bill, when he asked me to remember

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RecoveryTrek Announces Launch of Faces & Voices of Recovery Data Platform – (RDP)

Kevin

Apr 23, 2018
2 min

RecoveryTrek Announces Launch of Faces & Voices of Recovery Data Platform – (RDP)

Many have observed the power of a story of personal recovery from substance use disorder, but it can be difficult for organizations to justify funding and partnership opportunities without credible analytics and metrics. The Recovery Data Platform (RDP), a cloud-based software solution developed by Faces and Voices of Recovery and RecoveryTrek, accumulates, processes and generates useful reports that simplify the process for stakeholders. ---------------------- NORFOLK, VA. (

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Addiction experts have new tools, tough challenges

Kevin

Apr 19, 2018
2 min

Addiction experts have new tools, tough challenges

Written by Rich Lord Pittsburgh Post-Gazette April 15, 2018 [ASAM: 49TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Innovations in Addiction Medicine & Science] SAN DIEGO — After years of surging overdoses, some of the officials and medical practitioners most deeply involved in the fight against opioids have hope that they finally have the tools, the funding and the public support needed to get the epidemic under control. “I have some cautious optimism,” Debbie Dowell, a senior medical adviser at the

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Penn State hosts summit to combat the opioid epidemic

Kevin

Feb 22, 2018
2 min

Penn State hosts summit to combat the opioid epidemic

Kristie Auman-Bauer January 23, 2018 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Opioid overdose deaths in Pennsylvania increased 37 percent in 2016, ranking the state fourth in the nation. Coming on the heels of Gov. Tom Wolf’s declaration of the opioid crisis as a disaster emergency, Penn State recently held its first University-wide summit on the opioid epidemic. The summit drew together almost 200 researchers, practitioners and educators from across the Penn State system with the goal of deve

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'Mom' Sitcom Portrays Vibrant, Realistic Lives in Recovery

Kevin

Feb 21, 2018
2 min

'Mom' Sitcom Portrays Vibrant, Realistic Lives in Recovery

By Kelly Burch, 02/09/18 "For most people in recovery, getting sober isn’t the end of the story—it’s the beginning of the story." The CBS sitcom Mom isn’t just a show about life in recovery, but living sober is a major theme, since the two main characters, Christy (Anna Faris) and Bonnie (Allison Janney), are both in recovery. The show creators say that they make an effort to honestly show the struggles and rewards of sober living, creating a realistic picture of recovery for

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Marco Rubio Asks Feds To Investigate Florida Sober Homes, Rehabs

Kevin

Feb 20, 2018
1 min

Marco Rubio Asks Feds To Investigate Florida Sober Homes, Rehabs

By Kelly Burch, 02/12/18 [the fix .com] The senator wants to bring multiple federal agencies together to crack down on fraud and patient brokering occurring in the state's sober home industry. Florida Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into sober homes and rehabs in Florida that are "bad actors” with shady practices that have led to overdose deaths. Rubio urged Sessions, “to the fullest extent poss

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Bronx Opioid Court Gives Participants a Chance at Recovery

Kevin

Feb 12, 2018
1 min

Bronx Opioid Court Gives Participants a Chance at Recovery

By Victoria Kim, 02/02/18 TheFix .com Once a participant completes their treatment program, their case is dismissed and sealed, according to the Law Journal. A new program run by the Bronx Criminal Court in New York City is hoping to prioritize recovery for people charged with low-level, non-violent offenses. The Bronx’s Overdose Avoidance and Recovery (OAR) program is just over two months old, but has so far helped 50 defendants access treatment in lieu of jail, according to

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Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Causing Life Expectancy in America to Drop Dramatically

Kevin

Feb 9, 2018
2 min

Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Causing Life Expectancy in America to Drop Dramatically

By Amanda Macmillan, February 8, 2018 TIME Health U.S. life expectancy has decreased for the second year in a row, and an editorial in theBMJ points to three contributing factors: drugs, alcohol and suicides, particularly among middle-age white Americans and those living in rural communities. The authors of the paper paint a bleak picture of the problems facing much of the United States today, but the authors say that policies that bolster the middle-class can help reverse th

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Ending drug abuse requires multi-layered solution

Kevin

Feb 7, 2018
1 min

Ending drug abuse requires multi-layered solution

[BaylorLariat .com Opinion / Editorial - ATTRIBUTION / CREDITS APPEAR BELOW]: There were 28.6 million people abusing illicit drugs, including prescription pills and marijuana, in the United States in 2016, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s 2016 Survey on Drug Abuse and Health. This is nearly 8.8 percent of the U.S. population, a number that is staggering, yet sadly unsurprising. With such an out-of-control drug presence in the United States,

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