McGreevey, Vitale & NJ Reentry Corporation to Issue Report on the Opioid Crisis

Recommendations Will Focus on ‘Clinical & Structural’ Treatment Challenges

TRENTON — Former Governor Jim McGreevey and Senator Joe Vitale, the chairman of the Senate Health Committee,  will join with the New Jersey Reentry Corporation tomorrow to release a report on the opioid crisis. The report, the “New Jersey Opioid Addiction Report: A Modern Plague,” will include recommendations on the “best practices to provide for a clinically-driven addiction treatment system that utilizes a continuum of care based on successful methods used elsewhere.”

• Who: The New Jersey Reentry Corporation

• Governor Jim McGreevey, NJ Reentry Corporation.
• Senator Joe Vitale, Chairman, Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee.
• Dr. David R. Gastfriend, lead researcher on the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s (ASAM) Criteria for patient treatment matching. At Harvard Medical School and MGH over a 25-year span, he was Director of the MGH Addiction Research Program and founded the MGH/McLean Hospital Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship.
• Dr. Thomas McLellan, Scientific Board, Shatterproof, a national non-profit addiction research foundation, statement of support.
• Dr. Douglas B. Marlowe, National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), statement of support.
• Dr. Aakash Shah, Medical Director NJRC, MD Harvard University Medical School, MBA Oxford University.

• What: NJRC’s New Jersey Opioid Addiction Report: A Modern Plague Release.

• Where: New Jersey State House, Room 103, 125 W. State Street, Trenton

• When: Tuesday, September 25 at 11:00 a.m.

The New Jersey Reentry Corporation is committed to providing critically needed services to court involved individuals to empower them to achieve healthy self-sufficiency, thereby reducing recidivism and fostering safer communities.

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