From Collaboration to Collective Impact: A Community Approach to Tackle Youth Opioid Abuse on Staten Island

• By: Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness
• July 1st, 2015
• collective impact, community coalitions, cross-sector collaboration, data-driven strategies, opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, substance use prevention, youth substance abuse
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No single organization, however innovative or powerful, alone can address youth substance abuse in a community. A dedicated group of community members, philanthropists, behavioral health providers, law enforcement, government partners, and parents, understood this and came together to collectively...

Unintended Consequences: Are We Inadvertently Increasing Heroin Overdose Deaths?

• By: Richard Juman, PsyD TheFix.com
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction treatment, heroin use, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic, opioid prescribing, overdose deaths, prescription drug monitoring, prescription opioids
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Two years ago, The Fix spearheaded an effort to highlight the public health epidemic caused by the overprescribing of opioid pain medications which resulted in the tens of thousands of overdose deaths that were making front page news. The epidemic was iatrogenic- “caused by physicians”- in...