New York opioid abuse News

New York State Distributes $190M in Opioid Settlement Funds

Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York has made available approximately $192.8 million provided in the first year of the opioid settlement agreements to support a variety of prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery initiatives to help New Yorkers affected …

N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Calls to Expand Help for Heroin Addiction

Limited opioid prescriptions, greater funding for addiction treatment and more support for people trying to stay clean: those are some of the proposals for attacking New York’s heroin and opioid problem released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 9. The …

New York’s E-Prescribing Law Takes Effect This Month

The scribbled, cryptic doctor’s prescription is headed toward eradication in New York, where the nation’s toughest paperless-prescribing requirement takes effect this month. Instead of handing patients slips of paper, physicians soon must electronically send orders directly to pharmacies for everything …