-
Monroe County’s total overdoses for the year have surged past 1,000 in the last few days, topping last year’s numbers by more than 250 with six weeks…
-
Residents along North Clinton Avenue joined with others from around Rochester on Tuesday evening to say “no more” to the heroin epidemic they said is…
-
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…
-
Rochester’s Regional Transit Service has begun training its employees in a potentially lifesaving response to opioid overdoses.Transit service workers are…
-
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.…
-
Even as the number of treatment options for opioid and other substance addictions has increased in Monroe County in recent months, medical officials are…
-
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…
-
The origin of the opioid epidemic can be traced back to a number of causes including increased marketing of opioids by pharmaceutical companies and…
-
The opioid crisis in Monroe County continues to take lives, break families, damage dreams, and devastate communities. There are now 122 reported opioid…
-
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…