I have both some good news and some bad news to report.
The good news is that there may well be a relatively simple way for many individuals now caught up in the ongoing nationwide opioid crisis to pull themselves out of it. And that’s no small thing, considering that this man-made catastrophe killed an estimated 20,000 Americans from overdoses in 2016 alone. There were over 1,900 overdose deaths in New Jersey, a 10th of which were here in Ocean County.
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