Opioid Crisis

Rainbow brightly-colored fentanyl pills can be exposed to children through social media apps.

Dr. Indu Gupta reflects on her seven years as Onondaga County Health Commissioner and discusses ongoing health concerns the community faces.

The funding comes as County Executive Ryan McMahon released the latest opioid data, and the numbers are sobering. The county recorded 186 overdose fatalities last year, the highest ever in Onondaga County. That’s up from 156 in 2020.

State Attorney General Letitia James brought her Heal New York tour to Utica and Syracuse Tuesday, delivering nearly $37 million to the region to combat the opioid epidemic. The nearly $1.5 billion being distributed statewide comes from different settlements negotiated by her office following the March 2019 lawsuit against manufacturers and distributors of the painkillers.

Calling them “villains for the history books,” the attorneys general of New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota on Thursday announced a $4.5 billion settlement with the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the drug OxyContin that contributed to the nation’s opioid addiction crisis.

A $573 million settlement in the fight against the opioid epidemic was recently announced with nearly every state including New York. A global consulting…

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It’s been a little over a year since an emergency court was set up in Onondaga County to treat those addicted to opioids. WAER News checked in with the…

A drug treatment expert is praising Governor Cuomo’s proposal to ban a synthetic Opioid derived from Fentanyl that is adding to the Opioid crisis. The…