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Top Drug & Alcohol News of the Week   FEATURED NEWS: Number of Inmates With Meth Addiction Jumps in Rural Jails The proportion of inmates in jails with a moderate to severe stimulant use disorder—including addiction to methamphetamine — has surged in recent years, a study presented at the recent American Society of Addiction Medicine annual meeting suggests. Read More States See Rise in “Deaths of Despair” and Gaps in Mental Health Care Deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drug — known as “deaths of despair” — rose in all states from 2005 to 2016, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund. Read More   In Era of Opioid Crisis, Congress Reassesses Crack Cocaine Sentencing Laws As the federal government focuses on combating the opioid crisis, a bipartisan effort to revise sentencing guidelines set during the 1980s crack cocaine era faces an uncertain future, The Wall Street Journal reports. Read More Help Us Continue to Empower Families:   Donate Now Tell a Friend Study Can’t Answer Whether Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Cut Opioid Use A review of studies of prescription drug monitoring programs found no consensus on how effective they are in reducing opioid use, CNN reports. Read More Drug Use by U.S. Workforce Remains at Highest Rate in More Than a Decade Drug use by the U.S. workforce remains at its highest rate in more than a decade, driven by increases in cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, according to a new study. Read More Colleges See Relatively Few Cases of Opioid Misuse The opioid epidemic is largely bypassing U.S. colleges, according to Inside Higher Ed. Read More Other Headlines of Interest Center For Safe Internet Pharmacies And Partnership For Drug-Free Kids Announce New National Coalition To Help Curb The Opioid Epidemic (PRNewswire) Director of drug abuse institute offers words of caution on marijuana (The Boston Globe) Why America’s cocaine problem is now a fentanyl problem too (Vox) Top Doc focuses energy on patients fighting substance abuse (NBC10 News) Children of the Opioid Epidemic (The New York Times) Opioids in Oregon: It's not just a plague in the Rust Belt states (NBC News) Needle by Needle, a Heroin Crisis Grips California’s Rural North (The New York Times) Reversing An Overdose Isn't Complicated, But Getting The Antidote Can Be (NPR) Talk with your teens about the risks of synthetic drugs (Miami Herald) Can a Judge Solve the Opioid Crisis? (The Wall Street Journal) We really do have a solution to the opioid epidemic — and one state is showing it works (Vox) De Blasio Moves to Bring Safe Injection Sites to New York City AHA: Smoke-Free Laws Do Seem to Help Young Adults' Hearts (HealthDay) It’s Time for a New Discussion of Marijuana’s Risks (The New York Times) People taking medication to treat opioid addiction face stigma that they're not 'fully recovered' (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Google Announces Matching Grant to Fund Partnership for Drug-Free Kids’ Family Support Services

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