Archive: overdose

• “Help is Here:” Jacob Lignell ’26 and Professor LaBelle in The Hoya

  As The Hoya reflects on International Overdose Awareness Day, the student newspaper spotlights recovery and harm reduction measures across Georgetown, including the training and distribution of naloxone that the M.S. Addiction Policy & Practice program developed with HOYADOPE.

  Category: News Tags: director, overdose, publication, recovery, student spotlight

• Campus Surge Comes to Georgetown on October 7th!

  RSVP for Campus Surge 2025 In partnership with Hoyas for Recovery, the Master of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice program at Georgetown’s School of Health, and the O’Neill Institute’s Ce

  Category: News Tags: events, overdose, recovery, research, resources

• Tales of Hope, Love, and Resilience: Grief to Action Event

  This Thursday, we were honored to bring our community together for Grief to Action: Families Shaping the Nation's Response to Addiction. In partnership with Song for Charlie and the O'Neill Institute

  Category: News Tags: adpp, community, event, grief, overdose, recovery

• Saving Medicaid: Molly McGrath ’22 Published in Pittsburgh Gazette

  Congress must see the indispensable role of Medicaid in reducing overdose deaths, and not haphazardly freeze lifesaving federal grant programs that also provide medication treatment to the uninsured

  Category: News Tags: medicaid, overdose, publication, recovery, student spotlight

• NPR Feature: Regina LaBelle on the First State-Sanctioned Overdose Prevention Center

  This week, Program Director Regina LaBelle spoke to NPR about the opening of the nation’s first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center in Rhode Island. She discusses how the incoming administrat

  Category: News Tags: director, overdose, politics, publication, recovery

• Opioid Crisis in Focus: Program Director Regina LaBelle on the Current Epidemic and Harm Reduction Strategies

  The Bipartisan Policy Center and the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) held an in-depth discussion on the opioid epidemic ahead of the election. Experts, including Program Director Regina

  Category: News Tags: adpp, data, director, fentanyl, opioid crisis, overdose, panel, podcast, recovery

• Overdose Deaths Declining: Alumni Chad Jackson Quoted in Washington Post

  A new article in The Washington Post covers a promising trend: DC opioid overdose deaths are significantly down for the first time since 2018, according to a report from the Office of the Chief Medic

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