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Guest Blog – Dr. Stefan Zavalin with Love to Move

September 7, 2021 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Dr. Zavalin is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who created Love to Move to help people move more to improve mental, physical and emotional wellness and way of life. You can find Love to Move on Instagram – @_lovetomove_ or by visiting their website https://www.ltmmtl.com/. Enjoy today’s guest blog from our friend, Dr. Stefan Zavalin […]

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Count It! Lock It! Drop It! Fighting Opioid Abuse in Shelby County

June 14, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

June 14, 2018 Courtney Tipper According to the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an alarming 40 percent of opioid misusers have admitted to receiving painkillers from a friend or family member at no cost. Another 12 percent admit to purchasing or stealing prescription drugs from someone they know. Dramatically reducing this “pass […]

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BlueCross anti-opioid abuse campaign wins prestigious award

June 7, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

June 7, 2018 Staff report, The Tennessean A Tennessee campaign to combat the spread of opioid abuse by promoting the proper disposal of unneeded and expired pills has won a prestigious public relations award. The “Don’t Be An Accidental Drug Dealer” campaign, which was spearheaded by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and MP&F Strategic Communications, was […]

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Miss Tennessee uses personal tragedy to help fight opioid crisis

March 23, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

March 20, 2018 WKRN Staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – On Tuesday, Miss Tennessee took her tiara and her passion for the “Count it, Lock it, Drop it” initiative to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Caty Davis, who was crowned Miss Tennessee in 2017, lost her brother and father to opioid abuse and addiction. She’s since turned […]

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Pharmaceutical practices evolve as opioid epidemic surges on

March 23, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

March 15, 2018 Maura Sirianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Tennessee has one of the highest rates of opioid prescriptions per person across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With the opioid epidemic surging on, pharmaceutical practices are evolving to keep up. Pharmacists are often the last line of defense between […]

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Opinion | Continue collective fight against opioid misuse and abuse

February 26, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

February 24, 2018 Natalie Tate Tennessee’s opioids crisis is nearly unprecedented – but unfortunately, it isn’t new. We saw it on the horizon in the upper east region of the state years ago, where an increasing number of babies were being born dependent on prescription pain medication. We knew we had to take action, and […]

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Three Selected For State Drug Abuse Committee

February 5, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

February 4, 2018 Raina Wiseman Drug abuse is a problem that many people face, but one main cause of this may be how easy it is to get prescription drugs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With a late January executive order by Governor Bill Haslam, the Tennessee Commission on Pain and […]

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Gov. Bill Haslam unveils $30 million plan to combat opioid crisis in Tennessee

January 23, 2018 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

January 22, 2018 Joel Ebert and Anita Wadhwani  Educating children, making overdose-reversing drugs available to all state troopers and adding hundreds of prison beds to treat those fighting opioid addiction are part of Gov. Bill Haslam and legislative leaders’ comprehensive $30 million proposal to combat the epidemic. The proposal comes as Tennessee continues to fight the ongoing […]

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Tennessee overdose deaths jump 12% in 2016, as opioid crisis rages

September 19, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

Tennessee overdose deaths jump 12% in 2016, as opioid crisis rages

September 18, 2017 Holly Fletcher  The number of Tennesseans who died from drug overdoses spiked 12 percent from 2015 to 2016, largely due to growing use of opioid fentanyl. There were at least 1,631 Tennesseans who died in 2016 — up from 1,451 in 2015, according to the Tennessee Department of Health. The number of […]

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CDC Report: Local opioid prescriptions dip, overdose deaths still surging

July 24, 2017 By Alex Windings Leave a Comment

July 22, 2017 Zach Vance  Local health officials appear to be making headway against the flood of opioids prescribed in Northeast Tennessee. But in a deadly twist, overdose fatalities are rising in area counties, due in part to addicts turning from prescription medication to heroin and fentanyl. Released in early July, a Centers for Disease Control […]

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