Sentences with phrase «opiate city»

The third documentary, Opiate City, investigates the world of prescription painkillers and how the country's crackdown on oversubscription has led to a population dependent on opiates, particularly heroin.

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John began by joining Buffalo City Court on the nation's first Opiate Intervention Court that screens those arrested for the addiction and immediately gets them on a path to recovery.

«While we have been enjoying an historic era of low crime in this city, the recent uptick in violence and the surge in heroin and opiate addiction on Staten Island are very troubling signs,» Matteo said in a statement.

Poloncarz sits on the National Association of Counties and National League of Cities Opiate Epidemic Task Force as New York State's only representative.

Ignizio and Matteo also said they wanted the city to make a «real commitment to repair our crumbling roads» as well as provide additional resources «to combat the scourge of opiate addiction afflicting our city.»

Although current prevention strategies, which are based on needle and syringe programmes and opiate substitution therapy, can avert HCV infections and have reduced its prevalence in some cities from the very high levels that occurred in the 1980s, these interventions are unlikely alone to achieve further substantial reductions.

There's an epidemic of opiate abuse and overdose in Utah and Park City School District, along with Valley Behavioral Health are inviting parents, students and the general community to come to the Lunch and Learn on Wednesday to hear about ways to combat this problem.