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Should You Be Concerned?

May 31, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Should You Be Concerned?

Look for these signs and symptoms of prescription medicine abuse The summer is a season often spent with family, loved ones and acquaintances you don’t see as often during the year. As you prepare to spend more time with these people in the coming months, be sure to educate yourself on the signs of prescription […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: abuse, prescription medicine misuse, prevention, Tennessee

Tennessee Legislature: Now Is the Time To End Opioid Abuse

April 4, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

The Tennessee General Assembly has formed a joint task force on opioid and prescription drug abuse. House Speaker Beth Harwell, who is leading up the task force, has set her sights on determining best practices to dismantle Tennessee’s opioid and prescription abuse problems. According to the Tennessee Department of Health, data show that 1,451 people […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: abuse, opioid, prescription drug abuse, Tennessee General Assembly

Nashville’s fledgling addiction recovery high school

November 14, 2016 By Alex Windings

A couple hours before lunch, 15-year-old Owen Rockenbach was perched on a beanbag mattress on the floor, notebook in his lap, talking about depression with a clinical psychologist. It’s just another day at Ridgecrest Academy, which is definitely not just another high school. “The teacher picked up Chinese food for the kids for lunch the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: abuse, prescription painkillers, teen intervention, Tennessee

Toll on Tennesseans Challenges BlueCross to Tackle State’s Opioid Crisis

November 7, 2016 By Alex Windings

Last fall, Beth Anderson had hope that her daughter, Olivia Sucher, could break the grip of addiction. Olivia had the love and support of family and friends on her side. April 2, 2016 changed all that. With a phone call early that morning, the BlueCross employee learned that an overdose had claimed the life of […]

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Tennessee doctors: No one knew painkillers were so deadly

September 18, 2016 By Alex Windings

My cousin come up from Knoxville And he taught me a thing or two Now I’m headed nowhere but downhill With the OxyContin blues — Steve Earle, “OxyContin Blues” You can trace the history of Tennesseans’ problems with substance abuse by listening to their music. In 1957, Robert Mitchum was roaring out on Thunder Road […]

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Fighting for our lives: Tennessee’s opioid crisis

August 28, 2016 By Alex Windings

Tennesseans will soon hear about Count it! Lock it! Drop it!, a grass-roots effort of Coffee County’s Anti-Drug Coalition. “What’s wrong, Mama?” That’s the question Olivia asked her mother, Beth, who was wrestling with her own question, “Will Olivia make it?” For years, Olivia had struggled with pain pill addiction and all that comes with […]

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Count it, Lock it, Drop it combats painkiller addiction in Tennessee

August 28, 2016 By Alex Windings

Adam Allmon craved the euphoria and confidence of a high so much he would “rob you, steal from you and manipulate you” to get what he wanted. What he wanted was drugs. First cocaine. Then meth. When he awoke in a trauma unit after a car wreck, he became enabled by a new intoxication. Painkillers. The crash happened on a clear October afternoon […]

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Next Nashville Storytellers To Focus On Addiction, Recovery

July 20, 2016 By Alex Windings

In Tennessee, more people died from opioid overdoses than in car accidents or by gunshots in 2014. For every one person who dies nationally, there are 851 people in various stages of misuse, abuse and treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The abuse epidemic, as The Tennessean reported earlier this year, […]

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