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The Response is being published with grant
funding provided by the PA Commission on Crime
and Delinquency (PCCD) in concert with the
Berks County Opioid Coalition under the guidance
of the Council on Chemical Abuse,
601 Penn Street, Suite 600, Reading, PA 19601.
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EDITORIAL BOARD

T.J. Huckleberry
Executive Officer,
Berks County Medical Society
John Adams
District Attorney, County of Berks
Kevin S. Barnhardt
Commissioner, County of Berks
Carl Brown
Special Projects Coordinator,
Reading Downtown Improvement District
Ryan Herrera
Assistant Housing Director,
YMCA of Reading and Berks County
Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz
Director of Planning & Resource Development,
Council on Chemical Abuse
Michael Kaucher
Executive Director,
Reading Berks Conference of Churches
Stanley J. Papademetriou
Executive Director, Council on Chemical Abuse
William Santoro, MD
Chief, Section of Addiction Medicine
Reading Hospital, Tower Health System

Berks County Opioid
Coalition County of Berks

contents

summer/fall 2018

Features
13	 The Prejudices of Addiction
18	 Beginning the Journey to Recovery
In The Trenches: People in the Trenches of Treatment and Recovery
30	 Q&A with Dr. Jason T. Bundy - Pain Management
Community safety
22	 Berks County Medication Drop Box Program
24	 Surviving an Overdose
faces of Recovery
31	 Stories of Those Affected by Substance Abuse

Berks County
Opioid Coalition

633 Court Street, Reading, PA 19601

berks opioid coalition
leadership

Kevin S. Barnhardt and
Stanley J. Papademetriou
Coalition Co-chairs

community safety coMmittee

John Adams and Dr. Edward Michalik
Co-chairs

Community awareness committee
Michael Kaucher
Chair

data committee

Justin Loose and Kathy Noll
Co-chairs

prevention education committee
Cory Trevena and Jaclyn Steed
Co-chairs

treatment committee
Stephanie Smith and
Bernice Hines-Corbit
Co-chairs

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Letter from the editor

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On the radar

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Wisdom from The Wire

Who We Are
Alphabet Soup: Acronyms You Need to Know

28	 Drug Treatment Court
32	 Recovery and Prevention
	

News & Events

Any Illness Needs Treatment
How Does Someone Get Into Treatment?

OPIOID COALITION VISION
​​Identify opportunities to remediate the opioid crisis through the provision of evidence based/best practice strategies and resources.
OPIOID COALITION MISSION
​The mission of the coalition is to determine the extent to which Berks County is being affected by the non-prescriptive use of opioids
and the use of heroin through the examination of its devastating effects, both personal and societal, and to set recommendations
that address the prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery supports of local residents that suffer from opioid addiction.

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