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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.

A western New York man whose girlfriend fatally overdosed in a bathtub on the heroin he provided on Christmas Eve has been convicted of driving around with her body and taking the couple's toddler along for the ride.

The heroin epidemic continues in Central New York. An Oneida County Sherriff's Deputy responded to a call of an unresponsive male in his mid-20s at an address on Whitford Avenue in the Town of Whitestown to assist EMS. The first deputy to arrive on the scene recognized the appare…

A 15-year-old boy is dead after partying with prescription and over the counter medications while at a friend's house over the weekend.