Wife of NJ Governor Christie to help kick off anti-drug campaign

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Wife of NJ Governor Christie to help kick off anti-drug campaign

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/wife-nj-governor-christie-help-kick-off-anti-183555887.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/D6MUHd126aVx.P4xhgkzIg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-06-26T183555Z_1_LYNXMPEA5P0UY_RTROPTP_2_USA-SEPT11-MEMORIAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the dedication ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York" align="left" title="New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the dedication ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York" border="0" /></a>The wife of Governor Chris Christie heads to one of New Jersey's most well-to-do communities on Thursday to help kick off a broad strategy to battle heroin and opiate abuse, deemed the No. 1 healthcare crisis facing the state. The problem affects young people once considered low-risk who become addicted through legally prescribed pain medications, according to a report released in March by the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Alcoholism &amp; Drug Abuse Task Force. The report called for an effort to &quot;debunk the stereotype of the heroin junkie as an urban male with needle-tracked arms nodding off in some dark alley.&quot; The &quot;Community in Crisis&quot; meeting is being held in Bernardsville, an affluent borough of rolling hills, country clubs and horse farms 40 miles west of New York City. Bernardsville is located in Somerset County, one of the ten wealthiest counties in the nation, according to a list published last year by Forbes.com, which said the county had a median household income of almost $96,000 a year.</p><br clear="all"/>

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