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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...

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...

COUDERSPORT, PA. — People lost to drug overdose will be honored and support will be offered for survivors an an event marking Overdose Awareness Day i...

OLEAN — Fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine is responsible for up to 50 overdose deaths in Cattaraugus County over the past 2½ years. Dr. Kevin D. Watki...

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

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that decriminalizes possession and sale of hypodermic needles and syringes in New York. Under the new law, ne...

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...

ALBANY (TNS) — More than two dozen Democratic state senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week calling for them to ...

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...

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...

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...

A Wellsboro woman’s plea for a lighter sentence for her part in the overdose death of a Coudersport man in 2015 has been rejected by the state Superio...

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 ...

(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...