Sentences with phrase «at combatting opioid»
The state is opening a $ 25 million treatment center on Wards Island aimed at combatting opioid abuse.
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Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University, said execution would do nothing to truly combat the issue.
Republican state senators are cheering a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate that is aimed at combatting heroin and opioid addiction introduced this week.
Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.
In the afternoon, the president delivers remarks on combatting the opioid crisis at Manchester Community College, and then the first couple returns to D.C.
His aides pawed at a few end - of - session - priorities — a package to combat opioids, a bill to allow booze to be sold in movie theaters — but neither came to fruition.
Brenker spoke to the mayor, McCray and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo at his family's home in New Springville before officials announced a series of initiatives to combat opioid misuse deaths in all five boroughs.
Erie County, New York - In order to further combat the severity of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Legislator Patrick Burke is proposing a measure that would take an additional $ 1 million from the county fund balance, which currently stands at almost $ 90 million, and transfer it to the Erie County Department of Health.
1:15 PM — Lt Governor Hochul Highlights NYS Efforts to Combat Heroin and Opioid Addiction at Bronx Odyssey House.
At 10 a.m., Cuomo signs legislation intended to combat heroin and opioid abuse into law, Evergreen Commons, 262 Georgia St., Buffalo.
A new limit on the amount of opiates a physician can prescribe at once is among a handful of changes lawmakers plan to make in an effort to combat the state's ongoing heroin and opioid addiction crisis.
At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Michael Cusick, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Staten Island DA Michael McMahon, and representatives from the NYPD, Delco Drugs, and YMCA Counseling Services announce the donation of 10,000 drug deactivation pouches to combat the ongoing heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, Delco Drugs, 3833 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.
At 9:30 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul delivers remarks on the state's efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse at the SUNY Upstate Medical Symposium, Biotech Accelerator, 841 East Fayette St., 4th Fl., SyracusAt 9:30 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul delivers remarks on the state's efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse at the SUNY Upstate Medical Symposium, Biotech Accelerator, 841 East Fayette St., 4th Fl., Syracusat the SUNY Upstate Medical Symposium, Biotech Accelerator, 841 East Fayette St., 4th Fl., Syracuse.
At 1:30 p.m., Hochul launches a new mobile addiction treatment RV to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic, BestSelf Behavioral Health, 262 Woodward Ave., Kenmore.
At 9:30 a.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Commissioner of Health Gale Burstein, U.S. Attorney for the Western District William Hochul and police chiefs make a plea for volunteers to help combat the region's ongoing opioid abuse epidemic, Erie County Fire Training Academy, 3359 Broadway St., Cheektowaga.
Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.
Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Dan Donovan, state Sen. Andrew Lanza, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and New York City Councilman Joseph Borelli host a press conference to push for federal resources to combat the opioid abuse epidemic in Staten Island and South Brooklyn, Camelot of Staten Island, 460 Brielle Ave., Building H, Staten Island.
The deals he and the legislative leaders struck earlier this week included a package of efforts to combat opioid and heroin addiction, a growing scourge across the state; a push to expand access to mammograms and other methods of breast - cancer detection; and an agreement on improving safety at rail crossings, which carried all the political excitement of, well, rail crossings.
COMBAT heroin, opioid and substance abuse crisis with more funding at local and county level for proven prevention programs, education efforts for teens, parents and school and medical professionals.
Walsh also said he would look at what other communities are doing to combat opioid and drug problems in their cities.
Sessions is scheduled to me at JFK airport in Queens this morning to discuss what the Trump administration is doing to combat the opioid crisis.
Republicans in the state Senate huddled for hours in private at the Capitol Thursday afternoon, emerging to say little, other than that a tax on prescription drug manufacturers in order to combat the opioid epidemic remains on the negotiating table.
At 2 p.m., Hochul convenes a forum to discuss the governor's efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse in Rockland County, Rockland Community College, Student Union, Room 3217, 145 College Rd., Suffern.
Among their priorities: local funding support to combat opioid drug addiction, state lobbying for tougher laws against drug dealers, greater education and outreach regarding drug addiction and prevention, and better assessment tools for health professionals and first responders to help those at risk of becoming addicts and those in danger of repeat overdoses.
At a big heroin summit in Atlanta, Kellyanne Conway, who heads the «opioids cabinet,» talked up the Trump administration's efforts to combat the crisis, and the head of the NIH announced a program to study the biological causes of chronic pain.
He hailed increased funding to combat the opioid crisis that was included in the massive federal spending bill passed last week after touring the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary's Medical Center, which typically provides care for four to five opioid - addicted babies at a time.