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and Delinquency (PCCD) in concert with the
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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
in the community
from the coalition
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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