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Erie County Eyes Albany Police Diversion Program
ALBANY, NY – Numbers from the Erie County Health Department show the opioid epidemic in the county could claim the lives of nearly 400 people by the end of the […]
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Opioid crisis response ‘too little, too late’
The Courier-Tribune
Opioid overdoses took 1,200 lives in North Carolina last year — part of an 800 percent increase since 1999 whose body count has now surpassed 12,000. So when lawmakers approved […]
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NAADAC opposes senate health repeal
Insurance Newsnet
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 — NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals issued the following news release: NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, joined 66 other leadin…
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News Observer: NC bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law
News Observer
NC bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law By Thomasi McDonald via News Observer | JUNE 29, 2017 Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a bill […]
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Cooper to sign law limiting availability of prescription pain killers
News Observer
By Thomasi McDonald via News Observer RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a bill that more closely regulates the prescribing of pain killers, which state officials say […]
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NC bill limiting availability of prescription pain killers signed into law
News Observer
By Thomasi McDonald via News Observer RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Thursday a bill that more closely regulates the prescribing of pain killers, which state officials say […]
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De Blasio moves on Rikers – but hedges on jail relocations
POLITICO
By Gloria Pazmino and Conor Skelding via POLITICO Nothing about Rikers Island is easy for Bill De Blasio. Two months after responding to activist pressure and dropping his longstanding resistance to…
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Mayor quietly releases plan to close Rikers; criticism follows
Pix11
RIKERS ISLAND, Queens — It’s one of the very largest jails in the country, but as of Thursday morning, a plan to shut down Rikers Island was officially released by Mayor Bill [&helli…
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Albany lawmakers reach compromise on faster trials
WNYC
Kalief Browder was arrested when he was 16 years old in 2010 for allegedly stealing a backpack. He insisted he was innocent instead of pleading guilty, and he couldn’t afford to […]
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WNYC News: Albany lawmakers reach compromise on faster trials
WNYC News
Albany Lawmakers Reach Compromise on Faster Trials Beth Fertig via WNYC News | June 7. 2017 Kalief Browder was arrested when he was 16 years old in 2010 for allegedly stealing […]
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Saratogian: Kerry Kennedy calls on passage of bill for speedy trials
The Saratogian
ALBANY, N.Y. >> Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ex-wife Kerry Kennedy called Monday for passage of a bill to guarantee speedy trials to defendants who are being held in pre-trial detention for […]
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Communities seek strategies to combat opioid epidemic
The Daily Gazette
By Brett Samuels via The Daily Gazette Harry Brust looked up from the chair next to his prison cot, its sheet neatly tucked under the mattress, and recalled his first […]
