(Jan. 12, 2017) Atlantic General Hospital is partnering with the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and New Castle County Delaware’s Heroin Alert program, “The Heroin Trap,” to offer a free program, “Addiction Hurts: Struggles Facing our Families and Community.”
Free and open to the community, the goal of this event, held Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. at Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin, is to raise awareness about the risk of addiction and to provide resources for addiction rehabilitation, counseling and family support.
According to the Worcester County Health Department:
In 2012, there was only one reported opioid use related death in Worcester County. In 2015, that number rose to 11 reported overdose deaths tied to heroin/opioid use.
Admissions to treatment for heroin doubled in Worcester County; whereas statewide the number remained constant (2009-2011). Opioid-related admissions to treatment tripled in Worcester, while the number increased by less than 2 percent statewide.
Representatives from the Heroin Alert Program and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office will provide valuable information about the heroin epidemic, the effects on the community and how people can get help overcoming addiction.
Marie Allen, author of “Dope Help,” will share her personal story of losing a child to addiction. Allen has set her personal goal to tell as many people as possible about her daughter and the dangers of heroin addiction.
For more information, contact Donna Nordstrom at 410-629-6820 or dnordstrom@atlanticgeneral.org.
Atlantic General Hospital has been providing quality health care to the residents of Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties in Maryland and in Sussex County, Delaware since May 1993.
Built by the commitment and generosity of a dedicated community, the hospital’s state-of-the-art facility in Berlin combines old-fashioned personal attention with the latest in technology and services.
It provides quality specialty care such as weight loss surgery, orthopedics, outpatient infusion and chemotherapy for individuals with cancer or blood/autoimmune disorders, and a comprehensive women’s diagnostic center.
For more information, visit www.atlanticgeneral.org.
Free and open to the community, the goal of this event, held Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. at Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin, is to raise awareness about the risk of addiction and to provide resources for addiction rehabilitation, counseling and family support.
According to the Worcester County Health Department:
In 2012, there was only one reported opioid use related death in Worcester County. In 2015, that number rose to 11 reported overdose deaths tied to heroin/opioid use.
Admissions to treatment for heroin doubled in Worcester County; whereas statewide the number remained constant (2009-2011). Opioid-related admissions to treatment tripled in Worcester, while the number increased by less than 2 percent statewide.
Representatives from the Heroin Alert Program and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office will provide valuable information about the heroin epidemic, the effects on the community and how people can get help overcoming addiction.
Marie Allen, author of “Dope Help,” will share her personal story of losing a child to addiction. Allen has set her personal goal to tell as many people as possible about her daughter and the dangers of heroin addiction.
For more information, contact Donna Nordstrom at 410-629-6820 or dnordstrom@atlanticgeneral.org.
Atlantic General Hospital has been providing quality health care to the residents of Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties in Maryland and in Sussex County, Delaware since May 1993.
Built by the commitment and generosity of a dedicated community, the hospital’s state-of-the-art facility in Berlin combines old-fashioned personal attention with the latest in technology and services.
It provides quality specialty care such as weight loss surgery, orthopedics, outpatient infusion and chemotherapy for individuals with cancer or blood/autoimmune disorders, and a comprehensive women’s diagnostic center.
For more information, visit www.atlanticgeneral.org.