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

The first time I met Keagan Hernandez he impressed the heck out of me. The Granger Middle School sixth-grader wanted to meet in late August to talk ab...

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...

OLEAN — Often times it’s the family members of addicts, not the addicts themselves, who approach Shannon Scott’s Winning Olean Back addiction support ...

OLEAN — Items as varied as gun magazines and a canine drug overdose kit have been reported stolen as multiple cars were broken into sometime between T...

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...

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

CHEEKTOWAGA (AP) — Police in Western New York are warning residents of a possible lethal batch of heroin following a series of overdoses. WGRZ-TV repo...

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...

CUBA — A retired New York State Police narcotics investigator has entered the race for Allegany County sheriff by calling for change in how the county...

OLEAN — The heroin overdose death of her brother-in-law three years ago helped motivate Tabitha Crawford to quit her own drug addiction. The 32-year-o...

OLEAN — Winning Olean Back is asking the community to make a small gesture Tuesday to spread awareness about overdose deaths. The local addiction supp...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County lawmakers took the first step Wednesday toward joining a class-action lawsuit against drug companies for the market...

OLEAN — With data relating to Cattaraugus County’s opioid crisis flatlining or falling in 2017, the area’s health director is somewhat hopeful. The co...

OLEAN — With data relating to Cattaraugus County’s opioid crisis flatlining or falling in 2017, the area’s health director is somewhat hopeful. The co...

OLEAN — The Olean Police Department feels a dent has been made in the city’s heroin problem — officers say the opioid is less available on the street ...

The opioid and prescription drug problem in our nation, and particularly in Pennsylvania, has reached epidemic levels. In fact, in December 2016 the C...