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New Jersey Leaders Call on Congressional Delegation to Enact Lifesaving Opioid Reform February 24, 2021, 2:25 pm | in
New Jersey – February 24, 2021 – A coalition of 44 New Jersey healthcare, behavioral health, recovery, harm reduction, criminal justice, and social advocacy organizations and leaders called on members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation today to pass the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act.
In a letter to the delegation, these leaders urged New Jersey’s senators and representatives to prioritize the bill in light of historic overdose deaths across the state. In 2020, New Jersey lost more daughters, sons, mothers, and fathers to drug overdoses in some months than at any time in the state’s history.