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The Highlands Current - News for Philipstown (Cold Spring, Nelsonville, Garrison) and Beacon, New York

November 13, 2019

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Opioid Crisis

Special Reports

Fighting Back: Hidden in Plain Sight

By Anita Peltonen | October 6, 2017

Arms Acres splits services to two locations

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Fighting Back: Ending the Lies

By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong | October 6, 2017

Treatment center works to end deceit, work on hope

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Fighting Back: Body and Soul

By Anita Peltonen | October 6, 2017

St. Christopher’s Inn provides gentle, but strict, treatment plan

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Fighting Back: What Does It Cost?

By Site Editor | October 6, 2017

Long-term treatment runs into thousands

Opioid Crisis

Fighting Back: The Opioid Crisis (Part 2)

By Chip Rowe | September 29, 2017

Beyond punishment: cops and courts rethink strategy

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Fighting Back: A Day in Drug Court

By Michael Turton | September 29, 2017

A chance to avoid prison — and stay alive

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Fighting Back: “We Can’t Get Our Regular Work Done”

By Jeff Simms | September 29, 2017

Dutchess, Beacon officers frustrated by epidemic

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Fighting Back: Burlington Chief on Opioids, Crime

By Michael Turton | September 29, 2017

Former Nelsonville resident embraces new approach

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Fighting Back: Q&A with Judge Reitz

By Michael Turton | September 29, 2017

Longtime head of Putnam County Drug Treatment Court

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Fighting Back: Q&A with Putnam Sheriff’s Office

By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong | September 29, 2017

What happens when an addict is arrested?

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Fighting Back: Sasha’s Story

By Michael Turton | September 22, 2017

“So much pain; so many questions”

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Fighting Back: Max’s Story

By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong | September 22, 2017

He survived, but it took a whirlwind of treatment

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Fighting Back: The Chemistry (Chart)

By Site Editor | September 22, 2017

Breaking down heroin, fentanyl and naloxone

Philipstown News

Lawmakers Target Rx Opioid Supplies, Treatment

By Anita Peltonen | April 3, 2016

New angles on addiction

Philipstown News

Part III: Responding to the Heroin Epidemic

By Michael Turton | February 28, 2014

Awareness, enforcement and disease treatment

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