Learn More
Our goal is to provide information and resources to increase understanding of substance use disorder, mental health and the opioid epidemic.

Learn More

The numbers are staggering. From 1999-2017, almost 400,000 people died from an overdose involving opioids, including prescription and illicit opioids, in the United States. In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids was 6 times higher than in 1999.

Substance Use Disorder

Learn more about substance use disorder.

Drug Free New Jersey

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence – New Jersey

National Institute On Drug Abuse

Informed Parents. The Anti-Drug

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America

Office of Alcohol and Drug Dependency

Steered Straight

Talk Now NJ

Know Addiction

Mental Health

Learn more about the overlap of substance abuse disorder and other mental health disorders.

National Institute of Mental Health

Comorbidity: Substance Use and Other Mental Disorders

Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States

Opioid Epidemic

Learn more about the opioid epidemic, its causes and its effects.

NJCares (Realtime Opioid-Related Data for NJ)

Heroin, Fentanyl & Other Opioids Ebook (Partnership for Drug Free Kids)

Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain (NYTimes)

The Family that Built an Empire of Pain

20.2 million adults in the U.S. have a substance use disorder and 7.9 million have both a substance use disorder and another mental illness. National Institute of Mental Health (2014)