While challenges in the behavioral health and criminal justice worlds collide often, none is more acute in 2024 than the nationwide fentanyl epidemic. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is typically sold as a pill that mimics the look of prescription drugs. It is cheap, readily available, powerfully addictive and highly lethal. It presents challenges more difficult than previous drug crises by orders of magnitude.
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Prevention Means Progress honored 13 community and PMP Coalition partners during its 2021-23 Community Star Awards luncheon Monday, June 12, at The Salvation Army in Council Bluffs.
Costing a fraction of incarceration, treatment courts help non-violent offenders rebuild their lives through treatment, recovery, counseling, education and job placement services.