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Local efforts to combat opioid abuse being recognized world-wide

Prescription pain pills are seen dumped out on a table at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Tech. Sgt. Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner)

The work being done to fight opioid abuse in St. Joseph County is getting international coverage.

Addiction experts, including a St. Joseph County judge, have shared some of their findings with the academic journal, Taylor & Francis Online.

The article, titled “A Perspective From The Field: Five Interventions to Combat the Opioid Epidemic and Ending the Dichotomy of Harm-reduction versus Abstinence-Based Programs” dives into the innovative interventions being used in our area.

IUSB social work professor John Gallagher tells WSBT-TV it’s a chance to share what local officials have learned with the rest of the world.

Read more about the article in the original story from WSBT-TV.

 

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