opioid

OLEAN — The frequency of deaths from opioid overdoses in Cattaraugus County continues to trend downward so far this year, county health officials repo...

As money from opioid settlements began being distributed across the U.S. this May, the Associated Press warned that “local governments may not have th...

ALBANY (TNS) — Steve Gouvis touched his partner, Kimberly Hogle, on the shoulder. She had retreated to a bedroom in their Halfmoon residence a few hou...

OLEAN — Olean General Hospital and Southern Tier Health System, Inc. have launched a program that will help combat the opioid epidemic in the area. Ov...

SALAMANCA — Narcan nasal spray, an emergency medicine used to reverse an opioid overdose, is now publicly accessible in the Salamanca City Central Sch...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York will receive up to $524 million from drugmaker Teva to settle claims that the company contributed to the U.S. opioid epidemic...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer pushed Friday for more federal help in Buffalo and Western New York in light of a deadly new “rainbow fent...

CASA Trinity, an addiction recovery agency formed from a merger in April with Olean-based Council on Addiction Recovery Services (CAReS), plans to exp...

Cattaraugus and Allegany counties will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from the state settling lawsuits with opioid manufacturers and distrib...

SALAMANCA — In partnership with Southern Tier Health System, Inc. and their Southern Tier Opioid Overdose Prevention program and MATTERS Network, the ...

For the second time in as many months, a jury handed down a verdict finding pharmaceutical production and distribution companies directly liable for f...

New York state is at a public health and safety crossroads, and yet again current leadership has proven they are unable to discern the right direction...

Pennsylvania's opioid disaster declaration was set to expire at the end of Wednesday after state lawmakers, newly empowered to help manage statewide e...

Overdoses can kill. As a person begins to overdose their breath slows and may even stop. The key to saving the life of a person who is overdosing is t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — State Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that her office has reached a $1.1 billion settlement with three of the nation...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Bradford Regional Medical Center’s behavioral health services department recently earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval®...

OLEAN — As Olean city firefighters were noticing an increase in opioid overdoses earlier this year, the city’s fire chief sought a way to get a life-s...

Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s 1971 speec h beginning the war on drugs. By any objective accounting, the drawn-out conflict h...