Behavioral Health News, Fall (2) 2017 By Justin Mitchell, VP, Director of Residential Services & Daphne Juste, Clinical Support Coordinator With more than 60,000 opioid overdose deaths nationally in 2016, a multi-pronged treatment approach is necessary to address the worst drug crisis in American history.
On August 31st, as part of International Opioid Overdose Awareness Day, our Recovery Community and Outreach Center (RCOC) held free overdose reversal training for community members in the Bronx. The RCOC staff instructed more than two dozen people in how to recognize an opioid overdose and administer naloxone to reverse…
For more than 50 years, we have been a beacon of hope to thousands of men, women, and children in crisis. The majority of the people who turn to us for help not only struggle with the debilitating effects of substance abuse and mental illness, they face considerable challenges…
Mary Callahan, Senior Manager, Director of Outpatient Services, sat down with BronxNet reporter Daren Jaime to discuss how Odyssey House is tackling the opioid epidemic. Click here to watch the full interview.
Odyssey House President Dr. Peter Provet comments in The New York Times on a recent report (“If This Were an Overdose, Would You Help?” news article, May 10) on a controversial proposal to install lockboxes containing the opioid overdose antidote naloxone…