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Hospital targets drug overdose crisis with peer support program

Medical Center unveils ED-CARES to guide survivors through recovery

A crowd that includes state Sen. Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, left, and state Rep. Lee Hawkins, R-Gainesville, center, gathers in front of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center emergency room entrance Nov. 8, 2017, for an announcement from NGMC in response to the opioid overdose crisis in Georgia. NGMC, in association with the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse is launching this program that connects people surviving overdoses in NGMC emergency departments to peer recovery support services. - photo by Scott Rogers

11092017 PEER 3.jpg — A crowd that includes state Sen. Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, left, and state Rep. Lee Hawkins, R-Gainesville, center, gathers in front of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center emergency room entrance Nov. 8, 2017, for an announcement from NGMC in response to the opioid overdose crisis in Georgia. NGMC, in association with the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse is launching this program that connects people surviving overdoses in NGMC emergency departments to peer recovery support services. - photo by Scott Rogers

With the number of local overdose patients more than doubling in a year’s time, survivors now will have people to walk beside them who have been in their shoes.