Local residents who didn’t get the chance to participate in the DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 30 don’t have to – and shouldn’t – wait …
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 …
Safe Medication Storage
Put Your Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight About 60,000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while an adult wasn’t …
Substance Use Initiative receives grant from the AmerisourceBergen Foundation to launch prescription drug safety course for local high schools
Branson, MO – June 10, 2019 – The Stone and Taney Counties Substance Use Initiative announced today that it received a $100,000 grant from the AmerisourceBergen Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable …
Substance Use Initiative receives drug deactivation kits
CoxHealth and the CoxHealth Foundation announced today that the Stone and Taney Counties Substance Use Initiative received a donation of 5,000 drug deactivation pouches that will help bolster local efforts …
Local coalition members, Branson youth to attend substance use prevention training
Representatives from the Stone & Taney Counties Substance Abuse Initiative (SAI) and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT), are headed to Orlando, Fla., to join nearly 2,000 substance …
Here’s One Simple Way We Can Change The Conversation About Drug Abuse
The negative words we use to describe drug addiction — “clean” vs. “dirty,” “patient” vs. “addict” — can drive some individuals away from the very help they so desperately need. …
Substance abuse initiative identifies main concerns; Alcohol, prescription drugs identified as top items of focus
Alcohol and prescription drugs are the top two recommended areas of focus for an initiative looking to combat substance abuse in Taney and Stone counties. For a period of six …
Branson Area Eyeing Substance Abuse Solutions
BRANSON, Mo. – The Branson area continues its initiative to prevent substance abuse in the community. After months of research and assessment, the Skaggs Foundation and Cox Medical Center Branson …
Employers Learn to Spot Employees with Drug Problems
HOLLISTER, Mo.–The opioid epidemic has created new concerns for employers. A substance abuse workshop was held at Hollister High School. Its purpose was to teach local business leaders how to …
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