07.28.2019 Editorials Editorial: These massive numbers should anger everyone From 2006 to 2012, manufacturers shipped 76 billion opioid pills to pharmacies nationwide. More than 3.3 billion were shipped to New York State during that period. Of that total,...
03.16.2019 Editorials Editorial: With overdose arrests, history has been made In a very real sense, history was made again March 11 when two men were arraigned on manslaughter charges for allegedly supplying heroin cut with fentanyl to a Riverhead...
12.03.2018 Health East End News Project: Despite fewer deaths, opioid epidemic rages Across Suffolk County, 396 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2017 — more than one per day for the year. This year, as of Oct. 1, there have been 171 confirmed...
11.30.2018 Health East End News Project: Coalitions aim to reduce substance abuse With the nation in the throes of an opioid epidemic, more emphasis is being placed on preventing youth from starting down the path to addiction. A handful of East...
08.30.2018 Health Experts: opioid crisis was avoidable One company, the Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma, has played a critical role in instigating an epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States that killed 72,000 Americans last year...
06.02.2018 Editorials Editorial: Fight this epidemic An iconic image from the mid-1980s came from a group of New York City artists, who had “gathered over several months to provide support for one another in the...
