Members of the Ozarks Area Crisis Intervention Team council developed the resource card below at the request of local law enforcement. The council designed and printed the cards and are …
2nd Annual Recovery Jamboree
The community rallied together for a day of fun, food, and fellowship, all in honor of Recovery Month. Twenty three community partners collaborated to host the Recovery Jamboree on Saturday, …
Greene County Substance Use Treatment & Recovery Support Resources
***Disclaimer*** This may not be an exhaustive list. If you are aware of additional resources, please use the Contact Us feature of the website to send that information for consideration. …
Drug Free Ozarks extends EVERFI Prescription Drug Safety course direct to parents in response to COVID-19
In a response to the educational challenges presented by COVID-19, Marietta Hagan, population health project coordinator at CoxHealth, announced that an interactive online prescription drug …
Tobacco-21 Passed by Springfield City Council
The Springfield city council unanimously passed ordinances for T21. It received broad support from Springfield’s robust medical community at previous meetings where doctors spoke about how young people’s brains were …
Meth continues to be No. 1 drug problem in Greene County; fentanyl rising quickly
Jackie Rehwald, Springfield News-Leader Published 4:41 p.m. CT May 2, 2019 Much attention has been on the opioid crisis in recent years, but according to local law enforcement, meth continues to claim …
Springfield Recovery Community Center
Pro-Social Events and Supporting Growth in the Recovery Community By Ruiz, Aaron. Personal Interview. David Stoecker. April 22, 2019 On February 2, 2014, actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead …
Preventing a community crisis: The Substance Abuse Initiative
In 2015, 27 million individuals 12 and older used illicit drugs, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality — that is 10.2 percent of the U.S. population. …
Doctors call fentanyl the opioid that outlasts the antidote
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The fight to eliminate the opioid epidemic will take place on many fronts, but synthetic opioid addiction will be one of the tougher battles. “Opioid problems in …
Springfield emergency responders weigh in on solving opioid crisis
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – As the President calls the opioid crisis a nationwide epidemic, some of the people who fight it in Springfield have a common game plan to end …
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