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The White
House, in partnership with the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Ad
Council, and the Truth Initiative, recently released an ad campaign titled “The
Truth About Opioids.” The campaign targets teenagers and young adults and
features four 30-sec ads that each tells the story of a young person who begins
to abuse opioids, becomes trapped in addiction, and is driven to risk their
lives or limbs to feed the habit. Click
here to visit the campaign ads.
The Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) FY 2018 Opioid
Affected Youth Initiative will fund sites to develop a data-driven coordinated
response to identify and address opioid abuse challenges that impact youth and
community safety. Sites will work with OJJDP and a technical assistance
provider to develop data collection tools that will inform strategies and
programs to be implemented by the sites to address specific challenges
resulting from the opioid epidemic. The application is due July 2. There will
be a webinar
on June 22 to go over details of the solicitation. Click
here for a FAQ.
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The Office
for Victims of Crime is seeking applications for the FY
2018 Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid Crisis: Serving Our Youngest
Crime Victims grant. The purpose of the funding is to address an urgent gap
in services to crime victims related to the opioid epidemic and to expand
existing programs or establish new ones to provide services to children and
youth who are victims of the opioid crisis. Applications are due July 10.
A
new Pew Research Center survey has found that Americans overwhelmingly see substance
abuse as a problem in their local communities. The study shows that 90 percent
of Americans who live in a rural area say drug addiction is either a major or
minor problem in their community, as do 87 percent in urban areas and 86
percent in the suburbs, according to the survey of 6,251 adults, conducted Feb.
26 to March 11. Nationally, more than
63,000 people died of a drug overdose in 2016, with Indiana reporting 1,500
deaths.
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