News-Impact-Advocacy  September 28, 2016 Quick Links Information Help Line Donate to the Council Employment Opportunities Continue to Thrive!  Click here for more information on our year long campaign! Deadline Alert: 10/11/2016 is the last day to register before the11/08/2016 election. Don't know if you're registered? Check your registration status HERE.  2016 Recovery Voices Count Voters Guide  This year is more than just a presidential election. Our guide has information on all ballot positions, voting rights, how to find your candidate and poll, candidate answers to our survey on addiction policy and more!  Click HERE to access the 2016 Voters Guide The 2016 Voter Guide is a project of PRO-ACT Public Policy Committee  For questions about the event or local collection sites in Bucks County please contact:  Melanie Swanson  MSwanson@councilsepa.org 215-230-8218 X3145 The  Bucks County Overdose Prevention and Education Collaborative (BCOPE) is a group of committed individuals from diverse concentrations with a mission to educate others and save lives. The BCOPE Collaborative offers overdose prevention / education and narcan administration presentations that provide information and education to identified organizations specific to each audience's needs. The goal is to promote awareness and encourage further action. This outreach and education continues to adapt to the current environment and the reported use / abuse of opiate based drugs. Partnerships with the sectors of the community allow for increased community resiliency to the growing opiate drug problem. The collaborative meets monthly and are open to the public. Meetings are announced on the BCOPE web page and email list serves. If your community is need of an Opioid / Narcan presentation please contact David Fialko at 215-230-8218 or dfialko@councilsepa.org  Forward this email STAY CONNECTED

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Top News of the Day NEWSLETTER UPDATE: Dear Daily Subscriber, we are grateful for your readership. Over the past five years, we have provided you with the daily top drug and alcohol news that impacts your work, life and community. We have decided to change the daily newsletter to a weekly subscription published on Thursdays. We are committed to providing you with the same quality of news, capturing the top news of the week, and appreciate your loyal support and continued readership. Thank you, Candice Besson, Managing Editor, Partnership News Service  Bill Would Allow Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Dealers of Fentanyl-Laced Heroin A bill introduced in the U.S. House this week would allow federal prosecutors to seek capital punishment or life imprisonment for dealers of fentanyl-laced heroin, The Huffington Post reports. Learn more » Support Our Mission: Telemedicine Could Help Fight Opioid Epidemic, Experts Say Some health professionals say telemedicine could help fight the opioid epidemic, according to The Washington Post. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed $1.4 million to five pilot projects that will use video chat to connect patients with physicians who are trained in treating addiction. Learn more » States Allege British Drug Company Tried to Keep Generic Suboxone Off the Market Attorneys general from 35 states and the District of Columbia are suing a British drug company, alleging it tried to keep less expensive generic versions of the opioid addiction treatment Suboxone off the market. Learn more » Public Health Officials Urge Doctors to Consider Medications to Treat Alcohol Addiction Public health officials are urging doctors to consider prescribing medications to treat alcohol addiction, NPR reports. The drugs can be used alongside or in place of peer-support programs. Learn more » Other Headlines of Interest For Small-Town Cops, Opioid Scourge Hits Close to Home (The Wall Street Journal) The 4 Traits That Put Kids at Risk for Addiction (The New York Times) Blog: School Stress: Raising Resilient, Self-Aware Kids (Partnership for Drug-Free Kids) How Exercise Helped Me Beat My Addiction to Heroin and Opioids (Shape) Brad Pitt Voluntarily Took a Drug Test Amid Child Abuse Investigation (US Weekly) Howard Dean under fire for alleging Trump cocaine use at debate (CNN) Drug Overdose Deaths Drive Increase in Number of Organ Donations: One Family’s Story of Hope From Despair (ABC News) Volunteers to make house calls to doctors about opioids (app.com/ Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey)

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September 30 2016

STEP 10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. (AA BIG BOOK)

Psalm 51:2-4 Thoroughly wash me, inside and out, of all my crooked deeds. Cleanse me from my sins. For I am fully aware of all I have done wrong, and my guilt is there, staring me in the face. It was against You, only You, that I sinned, for I have done what You say is wrong, right before Your eyes. So when You speak, You are in the right. When You judge, Your judgments are pure and true.
(GODS BIG BOOK)    By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 2016

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September 27 2016

STEP 9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.(AA BIG BOOK)

Ephesians 4 :2:3 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

(GODS BIG BOOK)

Recovery Connections /Joseph Dickerson 2016

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September 21 2016

STEP 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. (AA BIG BOOK)

Colossi-ans 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.(GODS BIG BOOK)

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 2016