Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery

In the first three quarters of 2021, there were 780 overdose deaths in the St. Louis region, about the same as during the same period in 2020, according to the Missouri Institute of Mental Health at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The St. Louis area accounted for nearly half of fatalities statewide.

Two St. Louis addiction treatment advocates have opened a 24-hour clinic that treats addiction and mental health problems using the urgent-care model.

On most days, workers from the Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery meet with clients at the addiction treatment center’s South Broadway…

A St. Louis nonprofit is sending outreach workers to city streets to dispense life-saving treatment from a newly refurbished ambulance.The Missouri…

Chad Sabora walked up to a worker in a social services office in south St. Louis County in 2011, with a desperate plea: Where does someone get addiction…

South St. Louis has a new outreach center for people affected by addiction to heroin and prescription painkillers.The Missouri Network for Opiate Reform…