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The Oneida County Sheriff’s Office says an increase in heroin and opioid overdoses in December 2021 is prompting a "spike alert."

A troubling scene in Sylvan Beach where police say the responded to a reported overdose and wound up finding five small children in a home with four adults who were apparently overdosing on drugs.

A Rome man is facing charges after being found unconscious in his vehicle on Route 49 in Marcy.

The Broome County Health Department is one of four counties in New York State given money to help build health department capacity for opioid overdose prevention.

Sheriff’s officials in Delaware County are reminding residents that the New York 911 Good Samaritan Law protects people from charges if they are seeking help for a person overdosing on drugs.

Broome County officials are releasing the number of overdose reports coming into emergency services since January first.

Authorities say they've charged a western New York woman and her boyfriend in connection with the drug-related death of the woman's 10-year-old son.

Broome County Officials report 432 responses to overdose calls to emergency services so far this year.

The parents of a toddler who was fed a large amount of prescription pain medication that killed him will be spending several years in prison.

Police who responded to a report of an Ohio toddler apparently passing out on a sidewalk from a suspected drug overdose in the middle of the night say she was treated at a hospital, and her parents are charged with child endangering.