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Elizabeth Johnson's background, according to a personal website, includes a previous post as clinical director of the opioid overdose prevention program at a hospital in the Bronx.

Somerset County prosecutors say 10 people have been charged with drug distribution in the culmination of a seven-month investigation.

Christopher Walls, 50, pleaded guilty months after being arrested at his Long Branch home.

Drug reforms are on the agenda in the lame-duck legislative session, including a plan to allow the state to approve harm reduction programs that towns resist.

Is marijuana a gateway drug? Not as far as Dr. David Nathan is concerned.

The Hazlet woman who was arrested during a nap outside the Dollar General and charged with drug possession in Lakehurst last week has found herself in trouble again in the Ocean County borough this week.

Parents could still opt their child out of anonymous surveys about substance use and sexual behavior, but their active permission may no longer be needed.

The opioid epidemic got worse in late 2019 and through the early months of COVID-19, then improved in the second half of 2020.

Death certificates would have to list the specific drug responsible for overdose deaths, under proposed legislation.

From the beginning of March through September of last year, New Jersey experienced 1,784 suspected drug overdose deaths, state data show.