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Sea Change Caps Successful Summer With Funding to Continue Recovery Work

The LBI-based Sea Change Recovery Community Organization received a $50,000 grant from the Rx Foundation for its “visionary work of creating an intersection of community-based recovery services and advocacy/organizing for systems change,” RCO founder Elizabeth Beaty has announced. The foundation funds healthcare innovators.

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MAT Act moves in Congress

MAT Act MOVES in Congress – and we got a shout out!

The MAT Act is moving to the House floor! On May 18, 2022, the MAT Act (or Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act) went to markup and finally passed out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee. We’re thrilled to be another step closer to passing this bill out of the House and moving it forward in the Senate, and (hopefully) soon making this life-saving treatment more widely available to our communities in New Jersey and across the country – especially for people on Medicaid and without insurance.

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Working together to increase access to MAT (Medication-Assisted Treatment) in Spring 2022

Last week, staff and members from Not One More NJ met with Valerie Mielke, the Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services at the NJ Department of Human Services. We were also joined by Adam Bucon, State Opioid Treatment Authority, and Michael Petruzzelli, Policy Director for the DHS. We talked about our shared goal of expanding access to medication assisted treatment (MAT) and mobile MAT units in New Jersey, and how we can work together to make sure that people struggling with substance abuse disorder are able to get treatment that meets their needs.

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Governor Phil Murphy

Drug corporations are being held accountable – but let’s make sure it makes a difference in our communities.

At the beginning of this year, four massive drug corporations agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed in the devastating wake of the overdose crisis. Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson will pay roughly $26 billion for the role they played in the crisis, namely making billions at the expense of our lives, loved ones, and community.

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Direct service providers, policy experts, and civil rights advocates oppose fentanyl penalty increases at Senate Judiciary Committee

Today, 150+ recovery specialists, harm reduction providers, and policy experts opposed proposals to increase penalties for fentanyl (S-3325 and S-3096) through testimony and slips of opposition. Organizations submitting their opposition include ACLU-NJ, NAACP-NJST, Latino Action Network Foundation, Salvation and Social Justice, Newark Community Street Team, National Center for Advocacy and Recovery,Northern New Jersey MAT Center of Excellence, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, Make The Road New Jersey, Office of African American Gay Concerns, South Jersey AIDS Alliance, New Jersey Organizing Project, New Jersey Policy Perspective, and New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition.

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This bill could reduce overdose deaths. Why is Congress sitting on it? | Opinion

No matter where we were born or what we look like, everyone deserves to be able to heal and be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what they’re going through — and that includes struggles with substance use disorder. The main way we can reduce overdose deaths is to provide access to treatment and support for people at risk of overdose.

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