In the News – CWC Alliance

One-on-One with Cammie Rice

We welcome Cammie Rice to INsight to share her story and to talk to us about her book, “The Flight”. Cammie is a mother, an advocate, an author, and an agent for change. She has personal experience dealing with the dangers of opioid misuse through her own son’s battle from childhood through his passing at 32.

Urban opioid education moves to rural counties

A hospital program in Fulton County, Ga. that educates patients on opioids, and is working to prevent misuse and dependency at the source, is expanding to four rural counties in Georgia.

IPRCE Award

Several partners of the School of Nursing have been designated as Points of Light by the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory for their exemplary work in reducing injury and violence in Georgia. These individuals and organizations were honored at the organization’s recent 30th anniversary celebration.

‘No one asks to become addicted’: mother who lost son to drug overdose goes to war against opioids and ignorance of the dark side of painkillers

Cammie Wolf Rice shares her struggle to make sense of losing her son to opioids in her new book, and how she helps parents take steps to prevent similar deaths.

From pain to purpose: How a mother who lost her son to addiction is now fighting the US opioid epidemic

Speaking at the FCC on October 8th, Cammie went into detail about her son’s death, and how it moved her to become an activist fighting the United States’ ongoing opioid epidemic, which has taken an estimated 500,000 lives since Christopher passed away in 2016.