Sentences with phrase «addressing opioid abuse»

An upcoming survey by Siena, also commissioned by Prescription for Progress, will poll professionals working to address opioid abuse.

Since October 2014, other in - state initiatives to address opioid abuse were developed.

Not exact matches

A new Siena Poll addressing the state's opioid epidemic shows that 54 % of New Yorkers are personally touched by opioid abuse.

Visit www.combatheroin.ny.gov for more information on addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse, including a Kitchen Table Tool Kit to help start the conversation about the warning signs of addiction and where to get help.

Also at 11 a.m., state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Arlene González - Sánchez hosts a roundtable on initiatives to address the heroin and opioid crisis, Tioga County Office Building Auditorium, 56 Main St., Owego.

De Blasio talked about his safety initiatives, affordable housing plan and efforts to address mental health and opioid abuse, among other plans

Cuomo and lawmakers in both chambers did agree on other important legislation, such as measures to address the scourge of heroin and opioid abuse and to attack the problem of zombie homes.

That question will be one of many to be addressed by a newly formed public awareness task force about opioid abuse.

The draft bill, which is dated May 27, comes weeks after Cuomo convened a task force to examine how to prevent opioid abuse and how to address opioid and heroin addiction.

Saratoga County, just like Rensselaer County, has a coalition to address the issues of opioid abuse.

Suffolk County officials, police, treatment providers and school teachers hope to form a permanent advisory committee to address heroin and opioid abuse.

The package appears at odds with a competing set of 11 legislative proposals to address heroin and opioid abuse sent to the Senate and Assembly by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to a list supplied by a patient advocate.

Stefanik praised the constellation of coalitions across the North Country that have formed to address the issue, including Substance Abuse Prevention and Recovery of Clinton County, the St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment & Recovery Center in Saranac Lake and the Essex County Heroin and Opioid Prevention Coalition (ECHO).

As Western New York and the entire nation address a rising problem with opioid and opiate abuse, one of New York State's representatives in the U.S. Senate says the laws which crack down on international traffickers are not tough enough.

Topical lectures will include discussions on the responsibility of the scientific community to address sexual harassment by Meg Urry of Yale University; solutions to the opioid crisis by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; the future of science in Africa by Thomas Kariuki of the African Academy of Sciences; forensic science and the law by federal district judge Jed Rakoff; music for brain health by Nina Kraus of Northwestern University; the violence of migration by anthropologist Jason De León of the University of Michigan; and more.

In addressing the symposium held in the AAAS Auditorium, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the opioid addiction problem «came out of the health care system» after it was determined that opioid prescription medicine was needed to treat chronic pain affecting more than 100 million Americans.

Prevention efforts that start with young children and a significantly overhauled addiction - treatment system will be key to addressing the opioid epidemic, as well as any future crises involving drug abuse, Richter said.

States have begun to address the effects of opioid abuse on families and child safety in many different ways.