Mahwah HS Community Problem Solving Team Highlights Potential Dangers of Using Prescription Meds

Mahwah HS Community Problem Solving Team Highlights Potential Dangers of Using Prescription Meds

PROJECT KNO-PIOID: Mahwah HS Community Problem Solving team/class has chosen to raise awareness of the potential dangers of using prescription meds.  They are an impressive group of students! Take a look at the...

Social Media Dangers and It's Impact on Cyberbullying

Social Media Dangers and It's Impact on Cyberbullying

Today our children are using the internet and social media in almost every facet of their lives. While the internet may make our lives easier and is beneficial in many ways it also comes with many inherent dangers that as parents we must familiarize ourselves with to protect our children.

September is Suicide Awareness Month

September is Suicide Awareness Month

September 2016 is also known as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month which helps promote resources and awareness around the issues of suicide prevention, how you can help others and how to talk about suicide without increasing the risk of harm.

Lock Your Rx Stock: Help Prevent Drug Abuse

Lock Your Rx Stock: Help Prevent Drug Abuse

When there are any visitors in your house, your medicine cabinet can be open game for drug thieves. In fact, 70% of drug addicts reported that they started their addiction to prescription medications from family, friends and strangers’ medicine cabinets.

MMA Town Hall Meeting: Heroin Epidemic Video Presentation

MMA Town Hall Meeting: Heroin Epidemic Video Presentation

Thank you for visiting the MMA and we're now proud to present the full-length video of our 2015 Town Hall Meeting which discusses the Heroin Epidemic we are grappling with in Northern NJ and within Bergen County.

Prescription Drug and Heroin Epidemic - Education Program

Prescription Drug and Heroin Epidemic - Education Program

A dramatic increase in overdose deaths and the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers have become an epidemic. In Mahwah, like other municipalities in New Jersey and across the nation, we are facing an urgent public health crisis in overdose deaths, and the abuse of heroin and other prescription pain killers.