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October saw the most opioid overdoses in Monroe County since the sheriff’s heroin task force started keeping track in January.It was also the…
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The CDC estimated that 72,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2017. There are many reasons why the opioid crisis is so hard to confront. One of them is social stigma.
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Rochester’s Regional Transit Service has begun training its employees in a potentially lifesaving response to opioid overdoses.Transit service workers are…
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Helio Health, which runs all 25 of the inpatient detox beds in Monroe County, stopped accepting appointments and moved to a walk-in-only system in August.…
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Even as the number of treatment options for opioid and other substance addictions has increased in Monroe County in recent months, medical officials are…
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This fall Governor Andrew Cuomo announced more than $25 million in federal funding would help address the state’s ongoing work in combating the opioid…
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The origin of the opioid epidemic can be traced back to a number of causes including increased marketing of opioids by pharmaceutical companies and…
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Today, Chacku Mathai is the CEO of the Mental Health Association of Rochester.But at 15, he wanted to die.Describing himself as an immigrant kid with dark…
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For Simone Ochrym, the moment of recovery that interests her the most, is the turning point."What was that moment, where you said to yourself, I’m done. I…
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Harm reduction services like syringe exchange programs are not often the first programs promoted as treatment for opioid addictions. But staff members at…