Asbury Park Press
Racked with heroin addiction more than a decade ago, Morgan Thompson loosened the unrelenting grip of opioids with the help of programs like a sober-living student housing arrangement at Rutgers.
Thompson, 31, is now married, a mother and the CEO of Prevention Links, a drug prevention and recovery support non-profit - the sort of organization that helped save her.
The expansion of community support programs like that Roselle-based center represents a shift from the way New Jersey handled addiction five years ago, recovery experts say. The trend in drug overdose deaths in New Jersey suggests those and other efforts have paid off as the nation faces a mounting crisis.
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