Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan held a press conference Tuesday with the New York State Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin to announce a package of bills to address the urgent drug epidemic sweeping the state. The 14-bill package seeks to strengthen New York state law, increasing penalties for drug […]
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State will spend $213 million to fight opioid addiction
On April 19 at the THRIVE Long Island Recovery Center in Hauppauge, Long Island, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that will allocate $213 million for drug recovery institutions and programs statewide to battle the current heroin and opioid epidemic, which he calls “the worst drug scourge this nation has […]
We must declare a war on addiction
New York state is not alone in its drug inundation. We’ve all been watching the heroin scourge threatening to drown us just as surely as the rising water levels in our oceans threaten the same thing. We really don’t understand why our children too often turn to drugs. I […]
Bill requires Dept. of Health to track heroin overdoses and deaths
A bill requiring the Commissioner of Health to report opioid overdose data, has passed both the Assembly and Senate. The legislation, S.6516-a/A.9251-a requires the Health Department to report data on opioid overdoses on a per-county basis annually on or before October 1. The data would be posted on the […]