Sentences with phrase «county opiate»

«There is no dignity in a community that watches their women bury their children,» said Debra Smith, who heads the family support and advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Task Force.

Debra Smith, head of the family and community advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, acknowledges the opioid epidemic has become more of an issue for white, middle - class people.

When he talked with members of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, he urged the county to allocate more resources to personal outreach.

This event, occurring on International Overdose Awareness Day, is sponsored by the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force's («ECOETF») Family and Consumer Support and Advocacy group.

The Erie County Legislature's Majority Caucus announces that the Erie County Opiate Task Force is preparing a comprehensive assessment regarding the perception of opiate abuse in the community and is seeking input.

«Our community education work group is conducting a needs assessment of area schools,» Burstein said of the Erie County Opiate Task Force's subcommittee.

In Erie County the opiate epidemic is taking 1.5 lives a day.

Crisis Services participates in many groups and is a member of the Erie County Opiate Task Force.

The program, funded with $ 50,000 in Partners in Prosperity Public Safety money will be implemented in collaboration with the Oneida County Opiate Task Force and through the Center for Family and Life Recovery and is another step in Oneida County's comprehensive approach to combating this epidemic.

In addition to today's announcement, Oneida County has created the Oneida County Opiate Task Force.

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I will prioritize addressing the opiate epidemic through prevention, education, rehabilitation and enforcement, eradicating gangs and violent crimes, protecting our environment and drinking water, and being fiscally responsible while finding sustainable ways to balance our county finances.

• Four educational sessions / community forums to be held as part of the Oneida County Heroin / Opiate Task Force;

Cassandra Sheets, CEO of the Center for Family Life and Recovery said «Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc. is pleased to work with the other partners of the Oneida County Heroin / Opiate Task Force to present this forum on Prescription Medications, as data shows that approximately 80 % of new heroin users are coming to heroin after having abused prescription opioids.

Suffolk County legislators, law enforcement officers, academics, treatment providers and school leaders plan to form a permanent advisory committee to address abuse of heroin and other opiates.

We have partnerships with the state of New York to create peer support advocates and family navigators as well as an opiate treatment facility here in Oneida County.

The picture looked so bleak a year ago, with roughly a dozen people a week dying of opiate - related addictions in Erie County.

Nielsen pointed to remarks Poloncarz made at a recent Opiate Epidemic Task Force meeting, where he touted Erie County's recent lawsuit filing against major pharmaceutical companies for misrepresenting the addictive properties of their opioid - based painkillers.

SARANAC Bringing broadband to rural Clinton County, combating the opiate crisis and promoting bipartisanship at the county County, combating the opiate crisis and promoting bipartisanship at the county county level.

DA Flynn speaks at Black Balloon Day event hosted by the Erie County Department of Health Opiate Epidemic Task Force to remember those who lost their lives to opioid addiction.

Lately, the Erie County Legislature has been handling a large number of unbalanced spending proposals including lead and opiate initiatives that have been pushed on the Legislature without any notion of how to fund these programs for the long term.

«We can not arrest our way out of the heroin and opiate epidemic that has affected our nation and our county,» Mr. Bellone said.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Details of a recently settled lawsuit, involving a woman who died of of complications from opiate withdrawal after serving time in Schenectady County Jail, provide a snapshot into the days leading up to her death.

«We have an opiate crisis in Erie County.

At a time when fatal heroin and opioid overdoses have risen to unprecedented rates — 10 suspected opiate overdose deaths a week in Erie County — many area families complain that health care insurers are denying coverage for loved ones seeking medication and inpatient treatment for their addictions.

«God help us, we need to include the patients with severe chronic pain... to try to diminish the epidemic of opiate and heroin abuse,» Susan Rusinko, a multiple sclerosis patient from Cayuga County, said.

The pace, however, slowed as the county took aggressive steps, including promotion of the widespread use of the opiate antidote Naloxone.

«We've had to expend lots of money to deal with the opiate epidemic as a county and as a community, and we should be reimbursed,» Poloncarz said.

Nineteen suspected opiate deaths in the first 19 days of January have Erie County on pace for 365 deaths in 2017.

Erie County launched its Opiate Epidemic Task Force and Crisis Services began a 24 - hour hotline — 831-7007 — for addicts and family members needing help.

«The number of juveniles that go into this type of system and end up on the opiates side and with a lot of other issues» is alarming, McCoy said after his state of the county address Thursday in the newly renovated Times Union Center atrium.

In these roles, Ms. Dolan was actively engaged in the study to merge the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene into a single department as well as the County's efforts to combat the epidemic of prescription drug and opiate abuse.

Poughkeepsie, NY... In a collaborative effort, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, the Dutchess County Legislature, and the Health and Human Services Cabinet will host a «Community Forum on Prescription Drug and Opiate Abuse» on Monday, May 19th from 6:30 — 8:30 pm at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie.

In 6 to 8 weeks, the Jefferson County Jail will launch an experimental medical program that will administer vivitrol, a medication designed to block the high caused by opiates, to prisoners, who are vulnerable to relapse following their release.

McNall, R - Lockport, said he intends to place Legislator Rebecca J. Wydysh, R - Lewiston, in charge of a special committee to look into the opiate problem and what Niagara County might be able to do about it.

County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he believes the reduction in prescriptions for hydrocodone - acetaminophen speaks to the county's efforts to educate the community and medical profession about the dangers of opCounty Executive Mark Poloncarz said he believes the reduction in prescriptions for hydrocodone - acetaminophen speaks to the county's efforts to educate the community and medical profession about the dangers of opcounty's efforts to educate the community and medical profession about the dangers of opiates.

Wilber announced the police department, with the help of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, was recently trained in the use of nasal naloxone, known as Narcan, to treat victims of opiate overdoses.

«We are not at the end of the opiate epidemic in Erie County.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Heroin abuse does not discriminate, said members of a task force designed to combat opiate abuse in Essex County.