Thursday, September 8, 2016
Live Webinars in September
Alternatives to Opioids in Pain Management
Tuesday, Sept. 13 | Noon EDT
More than 250 million prescriptions for opioids are written each year, leading to an unprecedented public health crisis. What is chronic pain – and are there alternatives to opioids that doctors and patients should consider?
Funding for this webinar was provided by Iroko Pharmaceuticals LLC.
When Mental Health and Criminal Justice Collide
Wednesday, Sept. 21 | 9 a.m. EDT
As America’s jails fill with people who also suffer from mental illness, experts are working on new strategies. A top mental health expert and advocate will talk about mental health courts, diversion strategies and other avenues to help the mentally ill.
This webinar is underwritten by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.
NPF Awards Deadline October 14
The National Press Foundation celebrates the best of journalism with its annual awards, which carry $48,000 in total prize money. These prestigious and highly coveted awards are open to journalists across the media spectrum. Award winners will be honored at our annual awards dinner on Feb. 17, 2017.
Congratulations!
Each year, the National Press Foundation offers two all-expense-paid fellowships for the annual Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, at the University of Pennsylvania.
NPF is pleased to announce the 2016 fellowship winners are Jared Hopkins of Bloomberg News and Tracey Lien of the Los Angeles Times. The seminars take place October 8 - 11.
NPF Friends and Fellows
“Why Journalism,” an essay by John Harris, POLITICO co-founder and winner of NPF’s 2015 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award
USDA to award $18.9M to historically black schools | Angela Oliver | Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer | Kentucky | Future of Food & Agriculture 2016
Could powerful 'fakes' be the new heroin? | Terry DeMio |The Enquirer | Ohio | Confronting the Opioid Epidemic 2016
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