opioid

Local addiction treatment providers see the millions of dollars set to come down from the federal government as evidence rural America’s opioid crisis...

Jonathan “Jon” Levitt spent the last years of his promising young life battling the grips of a merciless addiction to opioids. Jon was an attractive a...

OLEAN — Is is time to expand the focus of the Cattaraugus County Heroin/Opioid Task Force? That was the question task force members asked Friday as ev...

New York is suing Purdue Pharma, the maker of the well-known opioid painkiller OxyContin, for its role in the growing and deadly opioid drug epidemic....

The New York Association of Counties has teamed up with the New York State Coroners and Medical Examiners Association to produce a powerful television...

OLEAN — As a group of family and friends gathered fistfuls of balloons to release into the sky above War Vets Park on Tuesday, Karen Materna was still...

ALBANY (AP) — Lawmakers in the New York state Assembly have voted to make opioid addiction a qualifying condition for medical marijuana. The Democrat-...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County Health Department officials aren’t sure why, but heroin/opioid overdose deaths have dropped significantly this year. Dr. Ke...

It is painfully apparent that the opioid epidemic is real, is dangerous and is claiming far too many lives. There is tangible proof that it is all of ...

LOUDONVILLE — Ninety percent of New Yorkers agree that the opioid crisis is more insidious than previous public health crises, as overdosing on some o...

LOUDONVILLE — Over the last two years, 24 percent of New Yorkers have been prescribed opioids for pain by a doctor, according to Part III of a Siena C...

LOUDONVILLE — Doctors over-prescribing opioids is cited most often as the single most responsible contributor to the current level of opioid abuse, ac...

LOUDONVILLE — Nearly a quarter of New Yorkers personally know of someone — a family member, friend or acquaintance — who has died from an opioid overd...

LOUDONVILLE — Nearly a quarter of New Yorkers personally know of someone — a family member, friend or acquaintance — who has died from an opioid overd...

In the middle of this opioid crisis people are scared. People in our community and our country are dying. This is a serious health crisis. But as peop...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A Lewistown woman will spend 5 to 10 years in state prison in connection with a 2015 Galeton, Pa., opioid overdose death. The Potte...

ALBANY (AP) — Opioid and heroin dealers whose products cause a fatal overdose could be charged with homicide under a measure passed by the New York st...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers will hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed local law declaring the heroin/opioid crisis, which ha...