News and Announcements
- ‘The drug bust paradox’: Study shows opioid deaths double after police action (Stat News)
- Drug overdoses seem to spike in spite of police seizures: Study (Salon)
- SF unlikely to arrest its way out of the doom loop, experts say (Mission Local)
- WSU Applebaum Physician Assistant student uses lifesaving skills on drive home, administers naloxone from vending machine on campus
- Responding to a mental health crisis in the community can increase care, CBHJ study finds
- Sheryl Kubiak honored as a notable leader in behavioral health by Crain’s Detroit
- Two professionals embrace new opportunities on path to graduate degrees in social work
- See someone in crisis? You don't have to call the police. Here are alternatives. (Michigan Radio)
- Narcan vending machines help deter overdose deaths (NaCO County News)
- Sheryl Kubiak featured in MOCAD exhibit alongside criminal legal reform activists and artists
- Cops & Clinicians: The World of Police Alternatives (Hour Detroit)
- Opinion: Employing parolees could help both businesses, society (Crain's Detroit Business)
- Vending machines fighting drug overdoses with free Narcan (Spartan News Room)
- Lenawee County starting program aimed at reducing mentally ill people in justice system (Daily Telegram)
- Police officers trained in crisis intervention teams were less likely to use force when responding to mental health crisis, new study finds.
- WSU School of Social Work partners with multiple agencies in crisis response initiative
- Ingham Co. Jail to receive Narcan vending machine (Spartan News Room)
- Free Narcan now available at Ann Arbor city hall (WDIV Local 4)
- Ingham County Jail could receive vending machine offering free naloxone kits (WKAR News)
- Vending machines with lifesaving drug grow as opioid crisis rages in US (The Guardian)
- Wayne State University program provides free Narcan in vending machines (WDIV Local 4)
- Wayne State Social Work presenters at the 2023 SSWR Annual Conference
- Jail reforms report shows over 150,000 drivers getting licenses back (Manistee News Advocate)
- Nearly two decades after leaving prison a free man, WSU staffer Terrell Topps now goes back weekly to steer others from incarceration to higher education
- Opioid Crisis: Reducing harm, one vending machine at a time (Traverse City Record Eagle)