addiction

Local legislation in Johnson City now regulates where Supervised Injection Sites for addicts to safely consume illicit recreation drugs can be located.

Family & Children’s Counseling Services is expanding its Binghamton Facility on Main Street.

Family & Children’s Society is building a new center for its newly renamed operation as Family & Children’s Counseling Service.

The Addiction Center of Broome County plans to use its mini-grant to establish a harm-reduction vending machine.

Programs to fight opioid addiction in the Southern Tier are due to receive up to $25.5 million from different legal settlements.

Mini-grants with $40,000 in funding is going to the Addiction Center of Broome County and Truth Pharm to work on opioid overdose prevention efforts.

The Broome County Health Department is reporting an increase in the number drug overdoses in the month of February.

The founder of TruthPharm provided testimony on the loss of her son to overdose to a Congressional committee hearing on the national opioid addiction crisis.

Over the weekend, the D.A. says, three Broome County residents died of drug overdoses and drug dealers continue to sell.

$25,000 is available in 2020 for Broome County agencies to conduct opioid overdose awareness activities.