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    Part 3: What Can You Do?

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    How you can help ease the opioid crisis
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    How you can help ease the opioid crisis

    • Apr 27, 2017
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    Working to curb and reverse Frederick County’s opioid epidemic takes a lot of people working across many fronts. More than that, it takes committed people who are equipped with the awareness, knowledge and training to act effectively.

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    Pregnant, addicted and trying to get clean
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    Pregnant, addicted and trying to get clean

    • Apr 27, 2017

    When Amanda Ashley quit heroin, she was three months pregnant, alone and working as an escort out of a motel in Hagerstown.

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    • Apr 27, 2017
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    In-patient treatment

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    Candlelight vigil explores the human toll of drug addiction
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    Candlelight vigil explores the human toll of drug addiction

    • Apr 27, 2017
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    In the throes of his addiction, Mike Greenberg, a recovering heroin addict, spent years running from the police.

    After cousin's death, Myersville resident joins the fight against heroin
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    After cousin's death, Myersville resident joins the fight against heroin

    • Apr 27, 2017
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    Before Jessica Mulgrew died of a heroin overdose, she lay unconscious for at least 30 minutes because her companions were too afraid to call for help, said Kelsea Kephart, Mulgrew’s cousin.

    Mount Airy businessman works to help drug addicts turn lives around
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    Mount Airy businessman works to help drug addicts turn lives around

    • Apr 27, 2017
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    Frank Illiano remembers the night he realized he needed to take action.

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    Coaching into recovery
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    Coaching into recovery

    • Apr 27, 2017
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    It’s never pleasant for Branden Joseph McCallister to confront his addictions, but the 35-year-old Frederick resident decided early in his recovery that he was even less comfortable remaining silent.

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    Virtual medicine connects patients fighting addiction to doctors from afar
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    Virtual medicine connects patients fighting addiction to doctors from afar

    • Apr 27, 2017
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    Cassandra Key hasn’t used since Sept. 21.

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