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• Turning Point Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of National Recovery Month

  Sep 6, 2019
  Every September since 1989, The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has sponsored National Recovery Month , seeking to ...
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• Turning Point Director Abigail Powell Speaks on NPR About Summertime Drug Use

  Aug 5, 2019
  Study Shows First-Time Drug Use and Relapses Most Common During Summer Months Turning Point Director Abigail Powell was a guest on the NPR Morning ...
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• Rehabilitation Treatments Begin for Demi Lovato After Drug Overdose Incident

  Aug 17, 2018
  On July 24 th , 2018, popular singer Demi Lovato suffered a drug overdose scare that sent her to the hospital. Complications with treatment and the ...
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• Why Do Drug & Alcohol Addiction Rates Increase in the Summer?

  Jun 26, 2018
  Now that the weather is warming up and summer is officially here, everyone is planning on how they will spend their holidays, time off from college, ...
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• New Jersey's Project Medicine Drop

  Aug 12, 2016
  When the discussion arose regarding the abuse of prescription medication use becoming an epidemic, not many people recognized how real the threat was. ...
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• Got Drugs? Return Prescriptions on National Drug Take Back Day

  Apr 29, 2016
  The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that 52 million people in the United States over the age of 12 have used prescription drugs for ...
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• Turning Point Celebrates 41st Anniversary

  Mar 9, 2016
  Turning Point is excited to celebrate its 41 st Anniversary on Thursday, March 17, 2016. To commemorate the moment, we are planning recognition events ...
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• President Obama Proposes $1.1 Billion to Address Opioid and Heroin Epidemic in New Budget

  Mar 4, 2016
  President Obama’s new budget for the 2017 fiscal year plans to allocate $1.1 billion in mandatory funding to address the opioid and heroin use ...
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