McHenry County Opioids Update: Learning to live without addiction
August 26, 2020
Sober living house rebuilds lives
Sober living house rebuilds lives
What are we doing right in pandemic?
Overdose deaths down by a third; OD-reversal drug nalaxone credited
Community sees many efforts to address overdose crisis
As Beau Zeis talked to a crowd about his decade-long drug addiction, almost-4-year-old Charlee and 2-year-old Layla played at his feet on the bandstand at Woodstock’s Park in the Square. […]
Alternatives to prison also save tax dollars
People can get hooked on opioids – in sickness and in health
A confluence of circumstances created the national opioid crisis in the late 1990s: the medical community’s acceptance of the idea that opioids were rarely addictive, the pharmaceutical companies’ aggressive marketing of […]
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