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Rallyers' bridge of recovery likely to cross into history
It is not hyperbole to suggest New Jersey’s Rally for Recovery 2008 could assume historic proportions as it reaches from Liberty State Park to Brooklyn, where New Jersey participants will be ferried to help form a human bridge of recovery across the storied Brooklyn Bridge.
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| 9/15/2008 |
9/15 - 9/17 - 3rd National Conference on Women, Addiction and Recovery |
| 9/17/2008 |
9/17 - NCADD-Middlesex Tree of Hope Celebration |
| 9/18/2008 |
9/18 - 26th Annual Statewide Conference on Compulsive Gambling |
| 9/20/2008 |
9/20- Support NCADD-NJ with Macy's Shop for a Cause |
| 9/21/2008 |
9/21 - New Hope Foundation's An Afternoon of Trop Rock Music |
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NCADD-New Jersey, FOAR-NJ head state Recovery Voices Count effort
TRENTON … (April 17, 2008) – New Jersey is among 10 states chosen to take part in an addiction recovery advocacy effort known as Recovery Voices Count. The initiative will build an addictions recovery constituency in each of the participating states through voter registration and education and a get-out-the-vote initiative, drawing in part from people in recovery and their families and friends.
NCADD-New Jersey calls for keg registration at state level
TRENTON … (January 8, 2008) – The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence-New Jersey (NCADD-NJ) today issued a call for state lawmakers to pass a statewide keg registration law to reduce youth use of alcohol and to curb the many traffic fatalities that result from youth drinking.
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Appalling actions in Lodi
“I was appalled,” Lodi Mayor Karen Viscana said on hearing the news. Her reaction suggested she had learned of some recent calamity. Perhaps Mayor Viscana was reacting to the Myanmar government’s continued refusal to admit aid workers to the country to assist cyclone victims? But no, that was not it. She was not responding to a disaster on that scale or, for that matter, on any scale. What the mayor found so repellent was that the town’s zoning officer, Joel Lavin, had approved an application for a methadone clinic within the town.
Enact statewide keg registration
January 16, 2008 - Gov. Jon Corzine’s Teen Driving Study Commission recently held a hearing to gather testimony on how to reduce the number of accidents involving young drivers. An aspect of this issue that, despite its long history, still needs greater attention is the combination of youth drinking and driving. NCADD-NJ provided the commission with data on keg registration demonstrating that the policy is an effective means of both reducing youth alcohol use and the car wrecks that result.
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Arguing the age it's OK to drink
Out of Hudson County, it had to be Stevens Institute of Technology that, among more than 100 college presidents across the nation who are calling for lawmakers to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18, is most vocal for the change.
Drinking age back at center of debate on college campuses
Thousands of students headed back to Rowan University's campus this weekend, nearly a week after more than 100 college presidents signed onto a petition saying the legal drinking age needs to be reconsidered.
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