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Officials from state and local government and drug treatment agencies announced the imminent opening of a new wing of addiction treatment beds at Helio…
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Monroe County has launched a program that law enforcement officials said will help people with drug addictions get into treatment programs instead of…
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The Monroe County Jail is adding a new type of drug and alcohol treatment program. The downtown Rochester jail is set to offer medication-assisted…
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The Monroe County Heroin Task Force has released its latest month of data on opioid overdoses, marking the first time the county has had a full year of…
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A New York state health department program that enables hospitals to surpass the usual limit on the number of opioid-addicted patients who can receive…
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The death toll of the nationwide opioid epidemic is still highest among men between 25 and 45, but new research suggests it’s growing increasingly deadly…
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Family members, neighbors, law enforcement and school staff gathered along North Clinton Avenue in Rochester in a human chain on Saturday, in an effort to…
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Opioid treatment programs in New York have not been using a state database that tracks opioid prescriptions, according to an audit from the state…
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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…
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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…