{"id":33931,"date":"2023-05-24T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/?p=33931"},"modified":"2023-08-27T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:19:56","slug":"secretary-hillary-clinton-visits-the-las-vegas-community-recovery-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/secretary-hillary-clinton-visits-the-las-vegas-community-recovery-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Hillary Clinton visits the Las Vegas Community Recovery Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a visit to the Foundation for Recovery, Secretary Clinton meets with overdose survivors, and announces 720,000 doses of naloxone distributed through a CGI partnership since 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access to naloxone can mean the difference between life and death for someone experiencing an overdose. The medication is a vital tool used in the Foundation for Recovery’s efforts to reduce fatal opioid overdose deaths in Las Vegas and across Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Foundation for Recovery’s community recovery center in Las Vegas, Nev. The Foundation for Recovery has partnered with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to distribute naloxone throughout the local community. Secretary Clinton today announced that through a partnership with Direct Relief and community organizations like the Foundation for Recovery, CGI has helped distribute over 720,000 doses of naloxone across 21 states since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is reason for hope \u2013 a recent study found that 3 in 4 people who struggle with addiction eventually recover. But they can\u2019t recover if we ignore them and deny resources to them, which is why we\u2019ve got work to do to make lifesaving naloxone to those who need it,\u201d said Secretary Clinton. \u201cAt CGI, we bring together people who have different experiences, different expertise, different resources, and put them all together to take action and make a difference that one of us alone could not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SECRETARY CLINTON GIVES REMARKS TO VOLUNTEERS AND MEMBERS OF FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY’S COMMUNITY RECOVERY CENTER (PHOTO: MEGAN MAHER)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Clinton Foundation has worked to fight the overdose crisis for over a decade, with President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton leading efforts to forge community partnerships to distribute naloxone. As part of today\u2019s visit, the Mayor and Las Vegas City Council issued a proclamation calling May 24 \u201cSecretary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation Day\u201d in Las Vegas, citing the distribution of 20,000 doses of naloxone to the Foundation for Recovery, and commitment \u201cto supporting the Foundation of Recovery\u2019s mission to support recovery and end overdose in Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional data for 2022 estimating that 109,680 people died from drug overdoses throughout the year, the highest on record. This is a slight uptick from 2021 after a decade of steady increases. Over two thirds of overdose deaths are from opioids, with the majority of those occurring from synthetic opioids like fentanyl. This month, the White House separately released data showing that over the past 12 months, there were more than 210,000 nonfatal opioid overdoses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At today\u2019s visit, Secretary Clinton spoke with Donica and Rob, two individuals in recovery whose lives were saved by naloxone. They expressed how critical naloxone was \u2014 not just in saving them during an overdose, but creating the pathway to recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere I was at, is where the naloxone was at, and that\u2019s what\u2019s so important, said Rob. \u201cToday I live an amazing life, I\u2019m the outreach director for the Shine a Light Foundation, I\u2019m the programs manager at Crossroads, I\u2019m an active member of this community, and none of that happens without stuff like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left to right, CEO Masimo Joe Kiani, Foundation for Recovery Executive Director Sean O’Donnell, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Chris Thrasher Chief Executive Officer of the Substance Use Disorders and Recovery Division at The Clinton Foundation. (PHOTO: MEGAN MAHER)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Members of the Foundation’s community recovery center and volunteers pack overdose prevention kits for distribution across Nevada following an overdose prevention training facilitated by the Foundation for Recovery. Secretary Hillary Clinton greets members (PHOTO: MEGAN MAHER)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a visit to the Foundation for Recovery, Secretary Clinton meets with overdose survivors, and announces 720,000 doses of naloxone distributed through a CGI partnership since 2019 Access to naloxone can mean the difference between life and death for someone experiencing an overdose. The medication is a vital tool used in the Foundation for Recovery’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":33933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[162,166,168,183,171,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33942,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33931\/revisions\/33942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forrecovery.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}