Gretchen Burns Bergman

Naloxone, the medicine used for an opioid overdose, remains illegal and considered drug paraphernalia in Mexico. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Opinión: Las familias de ambos lados de la frontera comparten tragedias y soluciones cuando se trata de la adicción

January 23, 2025 at 1:06 p.m.

En las últimas dos décadas, las comunidades de México y Estados Unidos han experimentado pérdidas devastadoras

Opinion: Families on both sides of the border share tragedies and solutions when it comes to addiction

January 22, 2025 at 6:01 a.m.

Our beautiful county of San Diego is rich in culture and diversity as we share a border with Tijuana. Many of our citizens travel back and forth across the border...

FILE - A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, on April 5, 2019. A judge has kept lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and of the Sackler family who own it on hold until Feb. 1, 2022, but ordered the parties involved to negotiate a new settlement. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

With overdoses spiking, we need a different approach

May 23, 2022 at 1:01 p.m.

Bergman is co-founder and executive director of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing) and lead organizer of the Moms United to End the War on Drugs national...

SAN DIEGO, CA - MAY 21: Paramedic Susan Monroe explains how to ister Naloxone (in her hand), an overdose drug delivered with an inhaler through the nose, during a demonstration at the County istration Center on Friday, May 21, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Moms are often the first first responders in drug overdoses. Here’s what they should know.

June 23, 2021 at 9:52 p.m.

Burns Bergman is co-founder and executive director of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing) and lead organizer of the national Moms United to End the War on...

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 16: Empty tables and chairs sit at the popular Brooklyn restaurant Blue Ribbon which stands closed in solidarity with the "A Day Without Immigrants," boycott/strike on February 16, 2017 in New York, United States. Across the country hundreds of restaurants and eateries are closing for the day to protest President Trump's immigration agenda and to highlight the contributions of immigrants to U.S. business and life. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Moms are speaking out on discriminatory drug policies that are tearing families apart. us.

December 5, 2020 at 2:23 a.m.

The holidays can be a particularly painful time for families who are missing a loved one at their holiday gathering. For the past eight years, mothers across the globe have...

**ADVANCED FOR USE FRIDAY, DEC. 26 AND THEREAFTER**A bail bond office displays a sign near the Santa Ana Jail in Santa Ana, California on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. An increasing number of bond agents are helping accused criminals make bail through risky financing. (AP Photo / Hector Mata)

Prop. 25 would end the discriminatory money bail system in California. It’s time.

October 13, 2020 at 7:47 p.m.

California’s justice system should treat everyone equally under the law, regardless of how much money is in their pocket, and a yes vote on Proposition 25 this November will end...

Alpha Project security guard Ernie Garibay drives through the neighborhood around the shelter tent on Newton Avenue every half-hour, making sure shelter residents aren't loitering in the neighborhood and encouraging homeless people who aren't shelter residents to take advantage of their services. The remains of a heroin injection kit were among the debris that Garibay cleaned up while out in the neighborhood around the shelter tent
on Monday, December 23, 2019.

My two kids survived the war on drugs. Others haven’t.

July 14, 2020 at 2:02 a.m.

In the middle of dual crises caused by COVID-19 and opioid overdoses, the systemic racism of our criminal justice system raised its ugly head with the police killings of Breonna...

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