In the News
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APP.com: Doctors hear about opiate prescription precautions at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Posted 6/12/2014
In the auditorium of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Thursday, Meg DuPont Parisi explained to an audience of about 100 medical professionals how an addiction to prescription opiates killed her son, Patrick.
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NJ Senate and Assembly Declare June 9 to 13 Opioid Abuse Awareness Week
Posted 6/12/2014
NJ Senate and Assembly urges all citizens of NJ to participate and inform themselves about opiate abuse by visiting TalkNowNJ.com.
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NJ.com - Ocean Township police make Monmouth County's first heroin overdose save using Narcan
Posted 6/6/2014
OCEAN TOWNSHIP –Township police have made the first overdose reversal in Monmouth County using the opioid antidote Naloxone, also known as Narcan, just one day after it was placed in the hands of the police officers.
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Heroin Overdose Antidote Deployed With Law Enforcement Across Monmouth County
Posted 6/5/2014
(FREEHOLD) The first kits of the heroin overdose antidote naloxone (Narcan®) have been delivered to police departments in Monmouth County and are now being deployed in an effort to stave off the rising number of deaths associated with the lethal drug, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced.
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NJ.com - Toms River police report 3 heroin OD’s in 12 hours
Posted 5/22/2014
TOMS RIVER — Three people overdosed on heroin over a 12-hour period from Wednesday night into this morning, local police said.
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Essex County Teen Places Second in Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s Statewide Drug Prevention Music Competition
Posted 5/22/2014
Patrick “PJ” Walshe, Jr. of Verona, Essex County, a student at St Peter’s Prep High School, Jersey City, is the statewide second place winner of the 10th Annual Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s Shout Down Drugs Prevention Concert.
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Sussex County Teen Places Third in Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s Statewide Drug Prevention Music Competition
Posted 5/22/2014
Luke Leifken, of Andover, Sussex County, a senior at Newton High School, Newton, is the statewide third place winner of the 10th Annual Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s Shout Down Drugs Prevention Concert.
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2014 NJ Shout Down Drugs Winner Crowned
Posted 5/21/2014
NEWARK — NJ has a new set of ambassadors to Shout Down Drugs. Michael Mastellone, Derek Ritschel, Bradley Ritschel, and Matt Korzen, students at Whippany Park High School, known as The Whiptones, are the statewide champions of the 10th Annual PDFNJ's Shout Down Drugs Prevention Concert.
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NYTimes.com - Heroin’s New Hometown
Posted 5/4/2014
On Staten Island, Rising Tide of Heroin Takes Hold
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APP.com - Cluster of overdoses plagues the Seasides
Posted 4/27/2014
For a place more recently accustomed to regularly counting its dead from heroin overdoses, Ocean County is now keeping track of the living. The antidote Narcan, a heralded nasal spray that reverses the life-threatening effects of an opiate overdose, is now in the hands of nearly half the police departments in Ocean County. The drug is credited with saving the lives of six people who overdosed on heroin or opioid-based prescription drugs this month.