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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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[VIDEO]: A NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE IS USING TRADITIONAL CULTURE TO FIGHT ADDICTION

Kevin

Mar 21, 2018
1 min

[VIDEO]: A NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE IS USING TRADITIONAL CULTURE TO FIGHT ADDICTION

By Zeke Spector, March 15, 2018 [Vice News] A year and half ago, Gabe Stewart stood in tribal court pleading guilty to felony charges because he stole money from his family to support his opioid addiction. In January, his community honored him for overcoming addiction and watched as his case was dismissed entirely. Stewart is a member of the Penobscot Nation in Maine, a state hit hard by the opioid crisis. American indigenous communities like his are also some of the hardest

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Native American Communities Need Help with Opioid Crisis: Senator Fights for More Funding

Kevin

Mar 20, 2018
1 min

Native American Communities Need Help with Opioid Crisis: Senator Fights for More Funding

Written by Victoria Kim, March 20, 2018 [The Fix] According to the CDC, Native Americans had the highest overdose death rate of any race in 2015. One U.S. senator is determined to get tribal communities in the United States their fair share of the billions of dollars in funding dedicated to fighting the national opioid crisis. Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp, of North Dakota, spearheaded a letter sent to Senate leaders early March, urging them to allocate opioid crisis fund

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The Two Women of Color Leading the Fight to End the Drug War

Kevin

Mar 8, 2018
2 min

The Two Women of Color Leading the Fight to End the Drug War

By Victoria Kim 02/07/18 “It’s a moment of women working to dismantle the structures that keep us divided...We’re not just fighting for harm reduction. We’re fighting for love and justice.” The momentum in the United States is finally in favor of drug policy reform, or ending the decades-long “War on Drugs.” More cities and states than ever are considering supervised injection spaces and are increasing access to naloxone (the opioid overdose antidote). Legal cannabis markets

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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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Community college could be free in West Virginia ... if you pass a drug test

Kevin

Feb 9, 2018
1 min

Community college could be free in West Virginia ... if you pass a drug test

By Georgia Wieland-Stanford [Daily Tarheel . com] The West Virginia state legislature is considering a bill that would make community college free for all state residents, but students must pass a drug test every semester to be eligible. As the national opioid epidemic continues, colleges must find ways to help students recover. The proposed bill, West Virginia Senate Bill 284, says the hope that comes with increased access to education and employment opportunities can fight

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Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

Kevin

Feb 7, 2018
15 min

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening

In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Emma Young finds out how they did it, and why other countries won’t follow suit. ------------------- It’s a little before three on a sunny Friday afternoon and Laugardalur Park, near central Reykjavik, looks practically deserted. There’s an occasional adult with a pushchair, but the park’s surrounded by apartment blocks and houses, and school’s out – so where are all the kids? Wal

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