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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 18, 2017

Tennessee joined five other states to in support of the Regional Opioid Initiative (RJOI), which has developed an action plan with strategies to combat the growing opioid epidemic. The initiative is the result of a Regional Judicial Opioid Summit held in August of 2016, which brought together multi-disciplinary representatives from across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. RJOI stakeholders are comprised of chief justices, judges, legislators, behavioral health treatment providers, medical experts, prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) managers, regulatory agencies, child welfare representatives and others.