opioid epidemic

WAER News explores a range of perspectives, from public health and law enforcement to treatment and the impact of opioid settlement funds.

The people using the drugs are often the first to know the new substances circulating in the community. Sometimes they don't survive.

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…

Onondaga County Health officials are growing increasingly concerned that the opioid addiction crisis is worsening because of…and being overshadowed by the…

National Overdose Awareness Day came at a time when the opioid crisis is being overshadowed by another public health emergency. Monday, we told you how…

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…

Nearly half of the more than 18,000 calls to the Upstate Poison Control Center in 2019 were about kids six and younger who had unintentional drug…

Calling it an “industry wide conspiracy,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to file a lawsuit for the over prescription of opioids…

Central New York’s rural counties are among some of the hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, so the state senate is bringing its task force to Madison…