Research shows that working with peers can help people recover from both serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
Alcohol & Substance Abuse
Juneau rolls out a new mobile crisis team
The team is made up of a Capital City Fire Rescue paramedic and a Bartlett Regional Hospital clinician. Crisis care consists of immediate response to a situation or crisis, further assessment of the person undergoing the emergency, stabilization, and follow-up involving other services.
Juneau Assembly OKs $500K grant to local nonprofit for substance misuse services
The grant’s approval comes two months after the permanent closure of Bartlett Regional Hospital’s Rainforest Recovery Center.
Juneau group home for women in reentry and recovery reopens after demolition
T’áa Shuyee Hit Haven House is now accepting applications for up to nine residents.
ACLU raises concerns as Alaska Department of Corrections works to keep fentanyl out of jails and prisons
Fentanyl is so concentrated that it poses new trafficking challenges. But new screening tactics raise red flags with the ACLU of Alaska.
Gastineau Human Services opens new substance use treatment center in Lemon Creek
This comes a month after Bartlett Regional Hospitalʼs Rainforest Recovery Center shut its doors.
Bartlett Regional Hospital’s Rainforest Recovery Center will permanently close next week
Hospital leaders say since June, nine staff members at Rainforest have resigned. That’s in large part due to the uncertainty of the program’s lifespan.
Here’s where money from Alaska’s opioid settlement is going
About $8.5 million will go to 18 organizations in the state helping with prevention and addiction treatment for the state’s deadly opioid crisis.
Alaska officials announce ‘One Pill Can Kill’ campaign to address fentanyl crisis
Gov. Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan announced the campaign at an Anchorage news conference Monday, citing Alaska’s 40 percent increase in drug deaths from 2022 to 2023.
Last year was Alaska’s deadliest on record for opioid overdoses
The increase comes as Alaska scrambles to respond to an epidemic that continues to shift form.