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.
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.
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.