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Young women are challenging the stigma of sex and love addiction support groups

On social media, young women are increasingly open about attending 12-step sex and love addiction programs. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous reports 1,200 meetings in more than 50 countries.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Could a Simple Intervention Fight a Suicide Crisis?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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  • Health Care

Georgia can improve access to mental health care by fully funding 988, report says

In 2022, total deaths by suicide and drug overdose declined slightly for the first time in five years, according to a report from Trust for America’s Health.

August 12, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Randy Nichols hold up plans for a campus dedicated to people in drug and alcohol addiction recovery.

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  • Health Care

New zoning law may help prevent stigma against housing for people in addiction recovery

Local rezoning requests typically take between 15 to 45 days under Georgia state code, but, until this year, that wasn’t true for all properties.

 

June 03, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The hope was that bringing many other services to people with high needs would stabilize their health problems. While the strategy has succeeded sometimes, it hasn't saved money.

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  • Health

How do you help patients who show up in the ER 100 times a year?

For decades, nonprofits, health insurers and hospitals have been trying to solve the problem of the people who need the emergency room again and again. Here are some of the lessons they've learned.

May 03, 2024
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By:
  • Leslie Walker and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Delgates vote by holding up yellow cards in the audience at the Dawson County government building March 21, 2024.

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  • Mental Health

6 regional councils in Georgia to review grant requests from opioid lawsuit settlement funds

Money for programs approved by the Region 1 Advisory Council affect communities north of the metro Atlanta area.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Drug-related street crime in Portugal has dropped along with overdoses. "There's an impression in the U.S. that if you decriminalize drugs, it's a wild west," said Miguel Moniz at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. "That hasn't been the case in Portugal."

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  • National

How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed

Portugal cut drug deaths by 80%, using free health care and addiction treatment. The U.S., meanwhile, focused on drug busts and tough crime laws. Overdose deaths keep rising catastrophically.

February 24, 2024
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Guillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose.

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  • Perspective

In Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, heroin is far from 'chic'

A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about what the drugs did to his dad. So why are peers trying to look like emaciated people with addiction?

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Guillermo A. Santos
A man attempts to roll his home out of the way of a front end loader during a sweep of a homeless encampment in Macon in June of 2022.

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  • Health

A growing unhoused population has been linked to rising overdose deaths. Supportive housing can help

“We don't want to make the mistake of saying, oh, homelessness is causing the deaths when it's this underlying opioid use disorder," said researcher from the University of Georgia David Bradford. 

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
 An overdose reversal kit was installed next to emergency medical equipment and a fire extinguisher near the main public entrance at the state Capitol. It’s one of five on site.

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  • Health

Bipartisan bill to expand access to free drugs like Narcan makes its way through Georgia House

Vending machines carrying opioid-overdose reversal drugs are the center of a bill moving through the Georgia House that aims to make more drugs available to combat deaths from overdose.

February 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
James Todd, Kim Jones, Sue Smith, Kevin Tanner on the stage at the Georgia Freight Depot Januray 24, 2024.

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  • Health

Narcan to 988: Recovery is possible with help from friends, certified peer specialists

Mental health advocates, peers, key leaders, and legislators from across Georgia gathered last week at Georgia's state Capitol asking to be involved with each legislative/gubernatorial commission, study group, or panel created to advise about mental health. They also want lawmakers to bolster the state's mental health workforce shortage by expanding the certified peer specialist (CPS) workforce and supporting a salary increase in parity with other service providers.

January 30, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
 An overdose reversal kit was installed next to emergency medical equipment and a fire extinguisher near the main public entrance at the state Capitol. It’s one of five on site.

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  • News

Statewide addiction recovery group wants overdose reversal kits in every government building

Georgia officials have been taking steps over the last decade to ease access to the life-saving drug in response to the rise in opioid overdoses here and nationally. The state has, for example, made the drug available over the counter and empowered first responders to carry it.

January 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Matt Capelouto, whose daughter died from a fentanyl overdose, speaks at a news conference outside the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Capelouto is among dozens of protesters who called on the Assembly to hear fentanyl-related bills as tension mounts over how to address the fentanyl crisis. (AP Photo/Tran Nguyen)

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  • News

In 2023 fentanyl overdoses ravaged the U.S. and fueled a new culture war fight

Fentanyl fueled unprecedented carnage with 112,000 fatal overdoses. The nation is increasingly divided over how to respond.

December 28, 2023
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  • Brian Mann,
  • Aneri Pattani - Kaiser Health News ,
  • and 1 more
Sue Howland, right, and Larrecsa Cox walk past addiction-themed graffiti

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  • Mental Health

Stronger opioid overdose reversal medicines worsen patients' withdrawal symptoms

While some harm reduction advocates want to see OPVEE as commercially available as Narcan, others say the medication is so strong that it’s cruel for the patient.

December 25, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Jocelyn Wallace, executive director of The Never Alone Clubhouse, stands at the entrance of the recovery center in Douglas County. As someone in recovery herself, she opened this place two years ago to give people who have dealt with substance use disorder a chance to connect

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  • Mental Health

More options, less stigma: How Georgians in recovery are breaking barriers to addiction care

For people living with addiction, it’s been proven that access to evidence-based treatment and support can help keep them alive and stable. But care can be hard to come by and is only possible by combating the stigma around addiction, which is pervasive among providers, the public, and people with addiction themselves.

December 19, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Louise Vincent has used street drugs since she was 13. She has emerged as a leading voice trying to humanize and help people who use drugs as they face the most devastating overdose crisis in U.S. history.

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  • Health

One woman's controversial fight to make America accept drug users for who they are

Louise Vincent has used drugs since she was 13. Research shows millions of Americans like her aren't ready or able to stop. Vincent believes it's time people accept that.

November 19, 2023
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By:
  • Brian Mann
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