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Top Drug & Alcohol News of the Week   FEATURED NEWS: Need for Multiple Naloxone Doses on the Rise The percentage of people treated for a drug overdose who need more than one dose of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone is on the rise, a new study suggests. Read More Federal Officials Suspend Database of Programs to Treat Addiction and Mental Illness Health officials have suspended a database of programs that help prevent and treat addiction and mental illness, The Washington Post reports. Read More   More Children Placed in Foster Care Because of Opioid Crisis: Study A growing number of children are being placed in foster care as a result of the nation’s opioid crisis, a new study concludes. Read More Help Us Continue to Empower Families:   Donate Now Tell a Friend Study Looks at Role of Medication-Assisted Treatment Started in the ER A new study will assess whether starting medication-assisted treatment in the emergency room within hours of an opioid overdose will prevent people from relapsing after they recover. Read More Increase in Opioid Overdoses Leads to Rise in Organ Donations The increase in fatal opioid overdoses has led to a rise in organ donations, according to CNN. Read More Sessions Allows More Aggressive Enforcement of Federal Laws Against Marijuana Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded a policy that discouraged prosecutors from enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states that have decriminalized the drug, The New York Times reports. Read More Other Headlines of Interest Trump Said The Drug Epidemic Is Unlike Anything in American History. Is He Right? (Newsweek) Recreational marijuana is legal in California but you still can't smoke it at work or in your car (Los Angeles Times) Opinion: We mobilized against flu, cancer and heart attacks. Where's the urgency on opioids? (USA Today) For families of addicts, Narcan has truly been a lifesaving drug (The Washington Post) Working through workplace stigma: Coming back after an addiction (Harvard Health Blog) The Opioid Crackdown: Have We Gone Too Far? Part II (Rehabs.com) The Opioid Crackdown: Have We Gone Too Far? Part III (Rehabs.com) Could Prescription Heroin And Safe Injection Sites Slow The Opioid Crisis? (NPR) Opinion: To fix the opioid crisis, doctors like me may have to let patients be in pain (NBS News) Opinion: How to Fight the Opioid Crisis (The New York Times) To understand why America’s opioid epidemic keeps getting worse, just look at this map (Vox) “My Child is an Addict: A Parent-to-Parent Podcast” (Caron Treatment Centers)

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