An overdose alert has been issued by State Police and medical authorities for Sussex County.
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Law enforcement responses to the crack and opioid-heroin epidemics are at the center of a new report from USA TODAY.
Student athletes are particularly vulnerable to opioid abuse. Studies show youth who participate in high injury sports had a 50% greater risk of opioid misuse.
In a recent interview with Michael Aron, Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle discussed her bill to create a year-long pilot program to set up four safe injection sites around the state.
The state attorney general estimated that the drug mill, set up in a luxury apartment in Harrison, supplied 15,000 doses of fentanyl and heroin per ...
According to the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, dentists write 12 percent of all opioid prescriptions. With a large portion of new heroin users ...
The head of New Jersey's Reentry Corporation says replacing one drug with another to help treat addiction isn't at odds with sobriety. Rather, former Gov. ...
The New Jersey State Commission of Investigation report found some pawnshops, scrap yards and other secondhand stores are complicit in the opioid epidemic.
A hearing on NJ Transit repairs to its internal operations. Lawmakers get an earful of complaints from insiders. A surprising turn-around. The state's basement level ...
At gallery opening, Gov. Christie urged more aggressive federal drug enforcement.
The prevalence of hepatitis C is growing in 17- to 35-years-olds, largely due to heroin use.
Christie announcing plans for a new terminal and tunnel. Also touching on investigations into the Trump campaign. Too hot for school. When it comes to ...
Proposals and personalities clash in the last televised Republican gubernatorial debate before the June 6 primary. Were any undecided voters swayed? Protests on behalf of ...
Three police departments in Bergen County, Paramus, Lyndhurst and Mahwah, are part of a pilot drug program that focuses on getting addicts to trained counselors.
The New Jersey Hospital Association held a summit on mental health and substance use disorder, which attendees stressed are very important in the health care ...
Misbehaving in the not-so-friendly skies. Can lawmakers legislate how airlines treat their customers? Can U.S. senators block President Trump's executive order that could lead to ...
How would you like one of these in your backyard? Franklin's fighting an energy firm to keep its compressor out. Princely payouts to police officers ...
The Monmouth County Sheriff's Office held a forum with students and leaders of county and state agencies to discuss the opioid addiction problem in New ...
Several measures passed through the Assembly, including one that gives first responders more leeway in administering an opioid antidote, one that would require presidential candidates ...
Crowding international arrivals to call out President Trump's travel ban as an assault on our values. A crowded docket of pressing issues put to a ...