Tag: Opioid
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Old Bridge partners with PDFNJ, local businesses in ‘It is time to consider opioid alternatives’ campaign
OLD BRIDGE – It is time to consider opioid alternatives. That is the message Old Bridge officials are hoping to get across to as many people as possible. And what better way than the message on a digital billboard along the busy Route 9 corridor. The billboard’s message states: “Americans Are Now More Likely…
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Bordentown resident charged in drug ring bust
TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a man who operated a hearing aid company was sentenced to state prison on Dec. 14 for conspiring with a doctor to supply a drug ring with high-dose pills of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. Seven members of the oxycodone distribution ring were indicted separately, which included…
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Edison man allegedly involved in conspiracy to supply oxycodone
TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a man who operated a hearing aid company was sentenced to state prison on Dec. 14 for conspiring with a doctor to supply a drug ring with high-dose pills of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. Seven members of the oxycodone distribution ring were indicted separately, which included…
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As heroin-related deaths rise, Somerset County residents share their stories
When Dina Aurichio, of Branchburg, gave birth to her son Dillon on Nov. 23, 1994, she never thought she would be taking him off life support on his 24th birthday, days after a heroin overdose. On Aug. 30, Somerset County community members and officials shared their personal stories related to addiction as part of International…
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Menendez, Booker, Pascrell, Bennet lead opioid addiction summit
PATERSON, N.J. – U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) recently convened a statewide summit to explore solutions to the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic gripping New Jersey and the nation. Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Bergen, Passaic, Hudson), Acting State Health Commissioner Cathleen Bennett, representatives from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health…