Sentences with phrase «heroin addiction also»

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Republicans also point to a package of heroin prevention measures that had come in part from a task force in the Senate on heroin and opioid addiction.

[15] As a local councilman, he was tapped to serve on both the New York State Assembly Task Force on Crime on Our Communities, also known as the Sex Offender Watch Task Force, as well as the Senate Task Force of Heroin and Opioid Addiction.

De Blasio also announced the launch of the «Mayor's Heroin and Prescription Opioid Public Awareness Task Force,» co-chaired by Staten Island Borough President James Oddo and Bassett, which aims to increase awareness of addiction services in the city.

Also at noon, the Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction holds a forum, Bourne Mansion Auditorium, 500 Montauk Highway, Oakdale.

The budget funds everything from education, to the tune of more than $ 26 billion, to boosting efforts to fight heroin and opioid addiction while also setting in motion an effort to bolster mass transit in New York City.

The Majority Caucus is committed to working with the administration to identify ways the county can help in the fight against opioid and heroin addiction, however the county is also facing serious financial concerns with limited fund balance and declining sales tax revenue.

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

Also, this past week, a bill was passed aimed at curbing addiction and abuse to heroin and opioids.

PIVOT members are also meeting with Assembly woman Addie Russell to push for more state funding to fight heroin addiction.

«As we have seen locally, heroin at a minimum causes a life time of addiction and misery, but can also cause immediate death.

Although the parallels to heroin addiction are in plain view, this is also a study in the essential evil of humankind — a theme evident in much of Ferrara's work.

Nor will another trending topic of drug addiction hurt the chances of Heroin (e), which not only deals forcefully with the much talked - about opioid crisis, but also does it by focusing on the heroic efforts of three women leading the charge in West Virginia.

It's also a movie unusually rich in excellent supporting characters, including Chris Messina as Joe's punchy Florida sidekick Dion, Chris Cooper as the pragmatic, world - weary local police chief, and a translucent Elle Fanning as the chief's daughter Loretta, who drags herself out of heroin addiction to become a beacon of proselytising Christian righteousness.

In humans, decisions relating to the present involve regions of the brain (viz. limbic and paralimbic cortical structures) that are also consistently implicated in impulsive behavior and cravings such as heroin addiction, whereas decisions that pertain to the future involve brain regions (viz. lateral prefrontal and parietal areas) known to support deliberative processing and numerical computation.