Emergency responders will offer people medication to help them make it through a critical window when overdose survivors are at high risk of dying.
Alcohol & Substance Abuse
For many Alaskans seeking addiction treatment, help starts with someone who has been there
Research shows that working with peers can help people recover from both serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
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.