Re: DOWNS: Medical Society Leading Addiction Treatment Efforts
The Medical Society of New Jersey’s (MSNJ) insistence, in the February 4, 2015 letter to the Asbury Park Press, that Senate Bill 2366 will hinder their physician’s ability to provide proper, personalized care to their patients is simply not true.
In fact, as a parent of a child that became addicted through a medicine prescribed to treat a sports injury, I think the MSNJ is missing the point. This law will give their doctors the opportunity to prevent countless families from suffering the unthinkable consequences of addiction. What can be more personal than that?
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This bill is not designed to prevent a physician’s ability to practice medicine in the best way possible. It is intended to require dialogue between patients, parents, and physicians. And, to help parents, like me, know the signs and symptoms to look for if their child becomes addicted to a medicine they were prescribed.
Doctors need to be part of the solution in addressing Monmouth and Ocean counties’ heroin epidemic and I ask all New Jersey doctors to support this life saving bill.
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Sincerely,
Diane N. Conforti, LCSW
Rumson
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Westfield, NJ
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Thomas McFlurry
Middletown, NJ
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Orlando L. Carnet
Roselle (Union County), NJ
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Lisa Carnet
Roselle ( Union County), NJ
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Diane Busby
Ocean County, NJ
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Marissa L. Adie
Eatontown, Monmouth County, NJ
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George Johnson
Monmouth, NJ
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Marybeth Pesce
Parlin, NJ
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Abby Boxman (Parent + Daughter)
Howell Township
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Laxdra Marenta
Freehold Township
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Josie Dafeleda
W. Long Branch
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Lori Altamirano
Hunterdon County
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Johanna Knaack
Toms River, NJ
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