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  • A West Virginia town uses Iceland's model to keep kids away from drugs and alcohol

    June Leffler
    2023-01-08 04:07:09 UTC
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    May 10, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    To address a major teen drinking problem, Iceland began pushing teens toward joining clubs and organizations and participating in outdoor recreation like fishing and skating. As a result, the percentage of teens who got drunk at least once a month dropped from 45% to just 5% and similar practices are picking up speed in other areas, like West Virginia.

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  • Harm Reduction: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    John Oliver
    2022-08-07 21:35:12 UTC
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    March 28, 2022 |

    HBO |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Overdose prevention centers in New York City provide a place for people with drug addictions to use drugs safely under supervision.

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  • Vermont State Police try sending mental health workers out with troopers. Is it working?

    Elizabeth Murray
    2022-10-10 12:48:52 UTC
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    March 14, 2022 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    The Vermont Department of Public Safety hired embedded mental health crisis workers to respond to mental health-related calls alongside state troopers, with the goal of de-escalating tensions that can lead to unnecessary arrests and use of force. While data is still being collected, service providers say the program has helped connect their clients to needed treatment and support.

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  • Greek community members say alcohol ban is effective

    Elena Adair
    2023-01-10 18:51:18 UTC
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    March 11, 2022 |

    The Daily Evergreen |

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    Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

    The WSU Greek Row hard alcohol ban emerged after a student and fraternity member died from alcohol poisoning. To ensure Greek life members are respecting the ban and staying safe, registered functions have sober volunteers to monitor the event and help out in case there’s a dangerous situation.

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  • Utah bucked alcohol industry with its tougher DUI law. A new study shows it made roads safer.

    Michael Laris
    2023-01-14 21:50:41 UTC
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    February 19, 2022 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    In an attempt to reduce fatal car crashes, Utah lowered the legal blood alcohol content limit to .05% and saw a dramatic decrease in fatal crashes. The state’s fatal crash rate dropped 19.8% from 2016 to 2019 and in 2019 deaths on the road fell to 248, compared to 281 in 2016.

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  • Fentanyl overdoses dropped in 4 states. These solutions are helping

    Arezow Doost
    2022-08-26 15:27:30 UTC
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    February 18, 2022 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    During the pandemic,New Jersey launched an initiative making the lifesaving overdose drug naloxone available at pharmacies without a prescription. Alongside strategies such as prioritizing access to harm reduction centers and making overdose data publicly available, the approach helped the state record a 7 percent decrease in overdose deaths as the majority of the country saw concerning spikes.

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  • Peer support: how ordinary Ohioans are helping others break mental health barriers

    Christopher Johnston
    2022-09-18 04:00:15 UTC
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    February 04, 2022 |

    Eye On Ohio |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    In Ohio, Thrive Peer Recovery Services connects people experiencing addiction with a peer supporter to help them find and access resources and reduce isolation. Peer supporters are people recovering from addiction who have been sober for at least two years and are trained to support others.

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  • Pima County programs help keep drug users out of jail, save taxpayers money

    Caitlin Schmidt
    2023-12-06 19:59:06 UTC
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    January 29, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson’s Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison program, or DTAP, offers intensive treatment and recovery services to certain people convicted of nonviolent offenses as an alternative to serving a sentence behind bars. Participants also receive support and counseling around job and life skills, transportation, and other critical needs, and at least 119 people have successfully completed the program since 2011.

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  • Santa Fe's once-vaunted diversion program for people with addictions has dwindled to nearly nothing

    Ted Alcorn
    2021-12-22 14:40:18 UTC
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    December 22, 2021 |

    Santa Fe Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    One of the nation's first programs using police officers to get people into drug treatment instead of jail succeeded at first, and inspired other programs throughout New Mexico. But the original Santa Fe program now serves as a lesson in what can all but kill such a program, thanks to a leadership vacuum and mistakes that undercut the cultural change needed within a police department. Like the first program of its kind, in Seattle, Santa Fe's LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) program takes aim at people whose drug abuse deeply entangles them in the justice system when what they need is treatment.

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  • The Judge Who Keeps People Out of Jail

    Ted Alcorn
    2021-11-30 21:13:38 UTC
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    November 30, 2021 |

    The Washington Post Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Rio Arriba, New Mexico

    Since 2018, Judge Jason Lidyard of Rio Arriba County, N.M., has forged a new model for a drug court. Instead of demanding abstinence from drugs as the price to stay out of jail, Lidyard uses respect and personal relationships to seek a redefinition of success: making substance abuse less deadly and less socially crippling. Violating the court's requirements to get treatment results in more help, not jail. The less punitive approach seemed to reduce overdoses until a new fentanyl surge complicated the picture. Almost all of the people who've gone through the court have avoided new felony arrests.

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  • Solutions journalism…
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

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