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Personal connections matter to families taking care of kin during opioid crisis

For family members unexpectedly taking care of a relative’s child during the opioid crisis, it can be difficult to navigate the legal waters of assuming custody. The process may be easier — and come with more support — if these caregivers have personal connections to local resource institutions,…
News Topics: OpioidsSubstance UseCSUAFamily
Pain meds.

For many, friends and family, not doctors, serve as a gateway to opioid misuse

In a common narrative of the path to opioid misuse, people become addicted to painkillers after a doctor prescribed them pills to treat an injury and then, later, switch to harder drugs, such as heroin. However, nonmedical opioid users were more likely to say they began abusing opioids after…
News Topics: Mental HealthOpioidsAddictionSubstance AbusePenn State ResearchFamilyFriends
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Study: Friends, family are most common gateway to addiction, not doctors

By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The often-told story of the prescription for an opioid that launches the patient down the road to ruin is not the typical tale of heroin addiction, according to a new report by researchers from Penn State and other universities. More common, according to the…
News Topics: AddictionSubstance AbuseOpioidsPenn State ResearchFamilyFriends
Woman and teen sitting at table and writing on sheets of red paper.

Family-Focused Approaches to Opioid Addiction Improve the Effectiveness of Treatment

- Written by Helena J.V. Rutherford, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine, Declan T. Barry, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine, and Linda C. Mayes, MD, Yale School of Medicine- Edited by Rebekah Levine Coley, Ph.D., Boston College- For more information, contact Martha Zaslow, Ph.D. Director for Policy,…
News Topics: OpioidsAddictionFamily
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Penn State researchers hope website humanizes, helps others affected by opioids

Stories can speak as loudly as statistics. That is the purpose behind “Share Your Opioid Story,” an initiative designed to raise public awareness of the impact of the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania and empower Pennsylvanians affected by the epidemic to talk openly about the effects of opioid…
News Topics: OpioidsFamilyCommunity

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