Albany County deaths from heroin overdoses have doubled, according to Sheriff Craig Apple. “We’re more likely to maintain sobriety when we receive support from society,” the sheriff said at a Sept. 13 forum. “I was a lock-’em-up guy 10 years ago. We lost."
The Sheriff’s office is warning that heroin is in the Hilltowns and other rural areas of Albany County, and will be hosting a town-hall style event at Voorheesville’s high school next week on how to face the heroin epidemic.
KNOX — Albany County Sheriff’s Investigator Amy Kowalski, who serves as a Community Liaison Officer, spoke alongside Catholic Charities representative Ed Fox at Tuesday’s town board meeting about bringing more awar
A first-in-the-nation program to provide no-cost or lower-cost naloxone at pharmacies across New York began on Aug. 9, according to a release from the governor’s office.
In Guilderland, people shared stories of opioid addiction and recovery in a high school forum last Wednesday shortly after Albany County announced a task force to prevent and treat opioid abuse in the community.
The Voorheesville Board of Education approved a provision to allow the school nurse to administer the drug Naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, to students and staff. Naloxone prevents death from an opioid overdose.
Sherry Francis of Altamont lost her apartment on Wednesday and has legal woes, hoping to explain in village court that her problems all started when she began taking a legal and prescribed drug.
A man who came to Altamont as a fair worker, police say, was a fugitive from justice and will be flown back to Florida once his felony heroin arrest here is settled.
Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy, in his state of the county address Tuesday, highlighted new initiatives like a mental health court and non-prescription access to the anti-opioid drug naloxone.
The Enterprise asked candidates about issues facing the county, including heroin use, county consolidation, suburban poverty, veterans' services, and care for the elderly.
