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Hampshire Hope: DART takes national stage

Hampshire Hope: DART takes national stage Published: 5/3/2021 4:21:49 PM A snippet of video included in our Hampshire HOPE presentation at the 2021 RX Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit drove our point home better than any PowerPoint ever could. Seated at a table was Adam Van Buskirk, a founding officer in the Northampton Police Department’s post-overdose response team known as DART, listening to a cellphone message he received from a woman he had worked with as a DART officer. “I’ll never forget you bringing me to detox,” the caller said. She let Van Buskirk know that she had since moved to the Boston area, gotten a job — and was doing just fine. Van Buskirk is now a detective on the Northampton force and no longer part of the DART team, but the impact he’s had during his time as a DART officer reverberates to this day.

Around The South | Southern Political Report

May 30, 2019 Alabama: Trump slams Moore.  Prospective Republican candidate for Senate Roy Moore took a big hit this week when President Donald Trump said his nomination could have “devastating” consequences, especially for the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.  The twice-removed former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice lost to Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) in 2017, following allegations that he had improper sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s.  North Carolina: Dems struggle to find good candidates.  U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is considered to be one of the more vulnerable Senate Republicans heading into 2020, but Democrats have struggled to find a suitable candidate to challenge him.  Cal Cunningham, a candidate for Lt. Gov., and State Senator Jeff Jackson have been floated as names, but as of now there is no big time candidate for the party to rally around.  Texas: SOS Whitley resigns.  Embattled Texas Secretary of State David Whitley resigned this week after he was failed to be confirmed before the end of the legislative session, as is required by law.  Whitley came under fire after his office wrongly flagged tens of thousands of Texans as potential non-citizens to be removed from the voter rolls.  That mistake led to a major lawsuit from a civil rights group and national media attention, and Democrats in the state Senate blocked his confirmation.  Gov. Greg Abbott must now name a replacement, who will have to be confirmed following the 2020... read more

New federal guidelines allow greater use of drug to fight opioid addiction

The Recorder - Editorial: Monday Shorts: Taxi!

Editorial: Monday Shorts: Taxi! Published: 4/25/2021 4:16:50 PM Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. One of the biggest roadblocks to employment in a rural county is transportation. The 101 cities and towns that make up metropolitan Boston boast subways, trains and buses, none of which we have to a practical extent around here, where cars rule. For want of a car, jobs are lost. Late-shift workers are especially vulnerable. To address this problem, the Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA) announced a pilot program funded by the Metro Area Planning Council creating a bridge service to allow late-shift workers time to fix or buy a car and thus become self-sufficient, explained FRTA Assistant Administrator Michael Perreault.

Quality Insights, Marshall School of Medicine develop program to address addiction stigma

Quality Insights, Marshall School of Medicine develop program to address addiction stigma Share Article Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and the Charleston-based non-profit Quality Insights co-developed a new program designed to target substance use disorder (SUD) stigma among health care providers in a hospital setting. The novel approach recruits champions from both clinical and non-clinical departments to immerse themselves in interactive learning scenarios that explain the science of addiction and impact of stigma on efforts to guide people with SUD into recovery. “Research shows that focusing on simple language changes, such as using the term ‘a person with substance use disorder’ versus ‘addict,’ can help de-stigmatize addiction and help people understand that it is a treatable disease,” said Crystal Welch, lead project coordinator for Quality Insights.

HMP Global Announces Distinguished Faculty Lineup for Inaugural Great Debates & Updates in Women's Oncology

HMP Global Announces Distinguished Faculty Lineup for Inaugural Great Debates & Updates in Women’s Oncology Share Article Program features clinical insight from prominent experts in the fields of gynecological and breast cancers; two-day agenda will address hot topics in an interactive, engaging format “Delivered in the highly popular and uniquely interactive Great Debates & Updates format, this program will offer participants an engaging, educational opportunity,” said Kathleen N. Moore, MD, MS, and Conference Co-Chair of GDU Women’s Oncology. MALVERN, Pa. (PRWEB) April 14, 2021 HMP Global, a leading healthcare event and education company, today announced the agenda and faculty lineup for its inaugural Great Debates & Updates in Women’s Oncology, taking place online April 23-24 via the company’s VRTX virtual events platform. The meeting’s faculty is comprised of a distinguished lineup of accomplished experts who will delve into the latest advances and clinical decision points in the treatment of breast and gynecological cancers.

CDC Translating Knowledge into Action as Addiction Crisis Evolves

April 07, 2021 Tom Valentino, Senior Editor The addiction crisis of today is not the same as those that preceded it even 2 years ago, and while there are reasons for concern, CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, told Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit attendees in a session presented Wednesday morning that she also sees reasons for hope. “We aren’t operating in the dark,” she said. “We are applying the public health tools available to us to understand the epidemic, how it is changing, who is at risk, and where we need to focus our interventions. “The crisis continues to evolve, and our public health response must be nimble—flexible to changing realities on the ground.”

Biden Pledges Assertive Action to Address Opioid Crisis

Acknowledging that addiction is a crisis that “touches families in every community in red states and blue states, across all races and creeds,” President Joe Biden told Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit attendees in an address presented Monday that his administration is committed to facing the challenge head-on. “The crisis is national, but the struggle is personal—deeply personal,” he said.

UK Opioid Experts to Present Findings, Share Successes at 2021 Virtual Rx Summit

President Joe Biden to deliver message about addiction at drug summit Monday

Citing surge in fatal overdoses, Biden promises more drug addiction help By (0) President Joe Biden, shown here on March 29, said Monday the nation can't lose sight of the substance abuse crisis in the United States. Pool Photo by Stefani Reynolds/UPI | License Photo April 5 (UPI) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to sharply higher drug overdose deaths and the federal government will continue to take "urgent action" to combat addiction, President Joe Biden said Monday. In a video message delivered during the 10th annual Drug and Heroin Summit, Biden noted that fatal opioid overdoses surged last year as the global health crisis deepened.