EmergencyThe Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s (PCCD) Office of Criminal Justice System Improvements announces the availability of up to $880,000 in Substance Abuse Education Demand Reduction Category One funds. Funding is available to nonprofit organizations to provide research-based approaches to prevention, intervention, training, treatment and education services to reduce substance abuse or to provide […]
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Centre Vision
The Carbon Opiate Task Force will work to reduce overdose and overdose deaths in Carbon County to zero. […]
Fentanyl
Across Pennsylvania, heroin, pharmaceuticals, and other illicit drug use continues to increase leading to an unknown number of fatal and non-fatal overdoses. Within this mix of illicit drugs, there is one drug that is increasing in popularity more rapidly than others. Fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50x more potent that heroin and […]
PA DHS Centers of Excellence
Pennsylvania leads the nation in the number of drug overdoses in men ages 12-25 and eighth among the general population. However, there are often waiting lists for a person seeking treatment. In 2015, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf allotted $15 million in behavioral health funds and medical assistance funding to create a series of 20 Opioid […]
Butler Vision
Vision: The Butler County Opioid Overdose Coalition will work collaboratively to eliminate overdose in Butler County […]
Butler County Task Force Meeting
Butler County Task Force will be hosting a meeting on Monday September 26th at 2 pm. TAC members Lynn Mirigian and Laken Ethun will be in attendance. […]
Recovery & Stigma
Society stigmatizes addicts as bad people that make a choice to become addicted. When I was a little girl, however, I did not dream of becoming a drug addict, nor did I say, ‘I want to grow up and have children to have them taken away from me by Children and Youth Services.’ I did […]
Everybody Matters
As many of you can tell from the recent news articles, social media, and perhaps your own life experiences, opiate overdoses are becoming an epidemic. In Washington County alone, we have had up to sixteen overdoses in one day. We have also suffered fatalities in some of those cases. There are, however, many resources and […]
