by TSS, Inc. | Sep 4, 2024 | Featured, Substance Use
We spend a lot of our time on prevention and education of those suffering from substance misuse. And in September, we focus on recovery. Celebrating those who have worked so hard to achieve sobriety and even harder to maintain it, should be an everyday thing. You can...
by TSS, Inc. | Aug 23, 2024 | Community Safety, Featured, Substance Use
Overdose Awareness Day brings awareness and education to reduce and prevent death from overdose. The 2024 theme is “Together We Can”, highlighting the strength of coming together and standing in support of those connected to the tragedy of overdose. It is important to...
by TSS, Inc. | Mar 8, 2024 | Substance Use, Workplace Safety
Drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace is harmful for everyone. Substance use can impair a worker’s ability to make cognitive decisions, emotions, actions, etc. and you never know how someone will behave under the influence. Most importantly, the safety of the...
by TSS, Inc. | Dec 5, 2023 | Drug Screening, Substance Use, Workplace Safety
According to the latest statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), problems with substance use and addiction continue to grow in the United States. The new data, based on responses to SAMHSA’s annual National Survey on Drug...
by TSS, Inc. | Dec 5, 2023 | Community Safety, Substance Use
The winter holiday season is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, filled with merriment and festivity. But it is also the most dangerous season on the roads, as more people are driving, drinking socially and choosing to get behind the wheel when they...
by TSS, Inc. | Oct 4, 2023 | Community Safety, Featured, Substance Use
Just about everyone has old antibiotics, pain relievers and other prescription medications gathering dust in their medicine cabinet. While these drugs are intended to support your health, they may be dangerous or even deadly when they end up in the wrong hands. So...
by TSS, Inc. | Aug 22, 2023 | Community Safety, Featured, Substance Use
A note from our CEO Over the last 20 years, a sharp increase in drug overdoses, and hundreds of thousands of senseless overdose deaths, have created a critical public health concern in the United States and around the world. The data is alarming. From 1999 to 2017,...
by TSS, Inc. | May 3, 2023 | Community Safety, Featured, Substance Use
Over the last months, we have repeatedly shared information about xylazine or “tranq”, a powerful non-opioid veterinary sedative that is emerging as a deadly threat in the illicit drug scene in the United States, and caused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency...
by TSS, Inc. | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured, Substance Use
A non-opioid veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine, also known as “tranq”, is emerging as a deadly threat in the illicit drug scene in the United States. People are often exposed to xylazine knowingly or unknowingly when it is combined with other illicit drugs such...
by TSS, Inc. | Mar 7, 2023 | Community Safety, Featured, Substance Use, Teen Drug Use
Did you know? More than 106,000 people in the U.S. died from drug-involved overdoses in 2021, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids. The synthetic opioid fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin and is...
