The Broome County Legislature takes up the proposal calling for accepting New York State funding to open a drug treatment and rehabilitation facility at the Broome Developmental Center.
Two former physicians from opposite ends of New York State are accused of contributing to New York State's opioid epidemic, one from the western part of the state and the other from the eastern portion of New York.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-addiction activists are calling for the Food and Drug Administration's top official to step down, saying the agency's policies have contributed to a national epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.