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Top Drug & Alcohol News of the Week   Rise in Drug Overdose Deaths Contributes to Increase in Organ Transplants A new study finds the rise in drug overdose deaths in the United States has contributed to an increase in organ transplants, CNN reports. Read More Google to Resume Accepting Ads From Addiction Treatment Centers Google will once again accept advertising from U.S. addiction treatment centers, Reuters reports. A company based in Portland, Oregon will vet the ads. Last year, Google suspended treatment center ads after it was found many of them were deceptive and misleading. Read More   Trump Plan to Combat Opioid Use Includes Expansion of Medication-Assisted Treatment President Trump’s plan to combat opioid use includes a push to expand medication-assisted treatment, according to the Associated Press. Read More Help Us Continue to Empower Families:   Donate Now Tell a Friend DEA Proposes Changes That Could Sharply Reduce Annual Production of Opioids The Drug Enforcement Administration this week proposed changing rules that govern the amount of prescription opioids that drug manufacturers can produce each year. The changes could sharply reduce the annual production of opioids, Reuters reports. Read More Many Teens, Young Adults Who Use Juul Devices Don’t Know They Contain Nicotine Almost two-thirds of teens and young adults who use Juul e-cigarettes don’t know they contain nicotine, according to a new study. Read More Other Headlines of Interest Jan Rader Is On the 2018 TIME 100 List (TIME) Get Opioid Resources and Personal Support Sent Straight to Your Phone Via Text (Partnership for Drug-Free Kids) Op-ed: Philly’s paper of record just removed the word ‘addict’ from its stylebook, and so should you (Billy Penn) A Drug to End Addiction? Scientists Are Working on It. (The New York Times) Drug Addiction Isn’t a Crime—We Just Treat it Like One (The Nation) Blog: Safer Opioids: A Well Kept Secret for Chronic Pain (Rehabs.com) My sister, a suburban mom, fell victim to opioids (The Baltimore Sun) Homeless Samaritan says he's still struggling with addiction (Associated Press) The Spice of Death: The Science behind Tainted “Synthetic Marijuana” (Scientific American) This Implantable Chip Could Monitor Alcohol Intake (Smithsonian Magazine) Marijuana-related ER visits by Colorado teens on the rise (Reuters) Surgeon general wants Naloxone widely on hand. Is this feasible? (NBC News) What U.S. drug policy might look like in a perfect world (The Washington Post) Anguished Families Shoulder The Biggest Burdens Of Opioid Addiction (NPR) Enquirer wins Pulitzer Prize for Seven Days of Heroin coverage (The Cincinnati Enquirer) The future of fighting opioid addiction may lie in text messages (New York Daily News)

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