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WHAT IS NEEDED TO REVERSE THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC

FIVE TOP PRIORITIES

  • Congregations and schools must lead the way in breaking through the stigma and shame surrounding addiction and in educating families and youth about substance use. [This work is underway!]
  • Educational leaders must develop and implement comprehensive K-12 substance use prevention and harm reduction plans, working together to identify proven or promising approaches.
  • Parents must equip children -- and students must equip themselves -- to make sound decisions regarding substance use and to help their peers do the same.
  • Hospitals must lead a comprehensive effort to eliminate the barriers to medication-assisted opioid treatment, starting by changing the way they treat opioid overdoses.
  • Hospitals and medical professionals must lead a counter-revolution in pain management without opioids to correct the excesses of the pharma-driven pain revolution of the 1990s.


HERE ARE FIVE MORE

  • Insurers must remove the systematic barriers to insurance coverage for addiction and mental health treatment, and must cover non-opioid alternatives for pain management.
  • The pharma companies that fed this epidemic through fraudulent mass marketing of addictive opioid pain pills must fund comprehensive efforts to repair and reverse the damage they caused.
  • Police and prosecutors must prioritize enforcement resources to target fentanyl importers and distributors, and use arrests of drug users as opportunities to connect them with effective treatment, not jail.
  • State officials must lead a comprehensive effort to upgrade the addiction treatment infrastructure, and to insist on rigorous, results-oriented evaluation of state-licensed treatment providers.
  • Public officials at every level must use a variety of tools -- legislation, licensing, regulation, taxpayer subsidies, bully pulpits, litigation -- to encourage the transformations needed in the addiction treatment, sober home, pharma and insurance industries.
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Food Pantry Sunday

Sunday, April 2, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Bring offerings of food the 1st Sunday of each month! Grace Episcopal Church works to distribute these offerings locally. Call the church at (815) 625-0442 with any questions!

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Holy Eucharist

Sunday, April 2, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Worship in the Episcopal Church rests on scripture and the traditions of the elegant language of the Book of Common Prayer. While the worship might seem more formal than spontaneous, we reliably read scripture every time we worship together, and we follow the liturgy that has stood the test of time. Our worship is in letting the liturgy carry us along into a deeper spiritual awareness and connection with God.

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Holy Eucharist

Sunday, April 9, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Worship in the Episcopal Church rests on scripture and the traditions of the elegant language of the Book of Common Prayer. While the worship might seem more formal than spontaneous, we reliably read scripture every time we worship together, and we follow the liturgy that has stood the test of time. Our worship is in letting the liturgy carry us along into a deeper spiritual awareness and connection with God.

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Holy Eucharist

Sunday, April 16, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Worship in the Episcopal Church rests on scripture and the traditions of the elegant language of the Book of Common Prayer. While the worship might seem more formal than spontaneous, we reliably read scripture every time we worship together, and we follow the liturgy that has stood the test of time. Our worship is in letting the liturgy carry us along into a deeper spiritual awareness and connection with God.

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Vestry Meeting

Tuesday, April 18, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Grace Vestry typically meets the third Tuesday of each month.

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