substance abuse

Julie Ritzler-Shelling, Trillium Health’s director of community health initiatives (at microphone) speaks about the benefits of overdose prevention centers. At left is Kelly Sciarratta, who also talked about her experience with substance abuse.

State

People in recovery say judgment-free addiction programs help. NY lawmakers could fund them

Racquel Stephen

Over a dozen people, including political officials and drug treatment advocates, rallied at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Rochester on Thursday to endorse the Safer Consumption Spaces Act and a separate bill that would decriminalize the opioid-use disorder treatment drug buprenorphine.

Health & Wellness

Online campaign expands services to help youth deal with mental health and substance abuse

Avery Schneider

An online peer-to-peer public awareness campaign aimed at helping Western New York youth deal with mental health and substance abuse is celebrating a…

Health & Wellness

What happens when social workers go on police calls? Southern Tier is trying it

Sarah Harding has a police radio and a bullet proof vest. She checks in with 911 dispatch as she starts her day. But she's not a police officer. Harding…

Local

Clergy encouraged to play active role in battling opioid epidemic

In what’s being billed as a first-of-a-kind local conference, experts are meeting with clergy members Wednesday in hopes of better preparing them to deal…

Health & Wellness

Governor pushes hemp farming, decriminalization, as NYS allots more drug addiction funds

Associated Press

An expansion of industrial hemp farming was one of Governor Cuomo’s proposals at his regional State of the State address in Syracuse. The proposal comes…