Addiction

Local legislation in Johnson City now regulates where Supervised Injection Sites for addicts to safely consume illicit recreation drugs can be located.

Family & Children’s Counseling Services is expanding its Binghamton Facility on Main Street.

Family & Children’s Society is building a new center for its newly renamed operation as Family & Children’s Counseling Service.

The Addiction Center of Broome County plans to use its mini-grant to establish a harm-reduction vending machine.

Programs to fight opioid addiction in the Southern Tier are due to receive up to $25.5 million from different legal settlements.

Mini-grants with $40,000 in funding is going to the Addiction Center of Broome County and Truth Pharm to work on opioid overdose prevention efforts.

Over the weekend, the D.A. says, three Broome County residents died of drug overdoses and drug dealers continue to sell.

$25,000 is available in 2020 for Broome County agencies to conduct opioid overdose awareness activities.

Community programs to address the continuing problem of opioid addiction could be in for more federal funding.

Starting November 13, the age to legally purchase tobacco and e-cigarette products in New York goes from 18 to 21.