opioid

We can’t say we didn’t see this coming: New York has put the first millions of dollars of opioid settlement money into its general fund, to be spent o...

ALBANY (TNS) — Lawmakers and advocacy groups are calling for restrictions on how New York uses future opioid settlement funds after discovering that m...

A natural drug once seen as taboo by mainstream America may now be poised to help battle the country’s opioid crisis. From 1999-2018, 450,000 people i...

ALBANY (TNS ) — New Yorkers who work on the front lines of the opioid epidemic say the COVID-19 pandemic is driving increased use of opioids and relap...

ALBANY (TNS ) — The number of New Yorkers who report being affected by opioid abuse has grown in the last two years, with 59% reporting that they or s...

In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency, and it announced a five-point strategy to battle the opi...

BELMONT — Data from a New York State Department of Health annual report on opioid overdose deaths showed Allegany County deaths at two in 2018, the la...

OLEAN — In the past 12 months there have been about 1,800 reports of suspected child abuse or neglect in Cattaraugus County. Half or more of the cases...

ALBANY — A new study finds New York could save roughly 586 lives a year if prior authorization requirements were removed on medications used to treat ...

SYRACUSE — An estimated 125,000 kids in New York had parents addicted to opioid drugs or were addicted themselves in 2017, according to a stud y relea...

BELMONT — A Belmont man who dropped a 1-year-old child while allegedly under the influence of heroin will serve prison time. The Allegany County Distr...

What do Sigmund Freud, Prince, Janis Joplin and Pennsylvania-bred rapper Mac Miller all have in common? They all died from an opioid overdose. Images ...

What’s that big green box located in Grove City Medical Center’s lobby, you ask? It’s our new drug disposal receptacle, installed recently as part of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York on Thursday sued the billionaire family behind OxyContin, joining a growing list of state and local governments alleging the ...

(TNS) In 2000, when I was 19 and having an existential and Adderall-fueled nervous breakdown, I came home from college for a long weekend and sobbed i...

(TNS) In 2016, the powerful drug fentanyl claimed the life of music legend Prince and has, in recent years, largely contributed to the next wave of Am...

Gabriella Mead remembers methamphetamine coming into her life and her hometown of Yorkshire seemingly out of nowhere in late 2017. “You never heard of...

The opioid crisis continued to plague Tioga County in 2018. According to the department of Health and Human Services figures, Pennsylvania ranks fifth...