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America’s Drug Crisis: Challenges and Successes in the Opioid Epidemic and Beyond

The newest edition of Practice Perspectives from NASW features “America’s Drug Crisis: Challenges and Successes in the Opioid Epidemic and Beyond” written by Takia Richardson, LICSW, LCSW. It offers an in-depth analysis of the different stages of the current drug epidemic that has swept the nation for the past few decades.

We encourage all our members to read this very timely article written about a subject that touches all of us, especially as professionals serving different populations throughout the state.

Click on the link below to read this article:

https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=VNXs8hCVRyA=&portalid=0

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