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An apparent fatal drug overdose is suspected after three bodies were discovered in an Oliver Street apartment in North Tonawanda. Police said a fourth…

First there was heroin. Then fentanyl. Then carfentanil. Now butyryl. Ever-stronger variations of the deadly opioid are making their way through Western…

Anyone who watches crime shows on television, whether a reality show or fiction, knows officers put up that yellow crime tape and wait for the forensics…

Overdose deaths started to level off near the end of 2017 and are "finally bending in the right direction," says Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, citing early data.

Authorities say a Cheektowaga Police officer had to break a car window to rescue a toddler from the sweltering vehicle after her mother apparently…

Ontario Provincial Police are warning that a drug known as "purple heroin" has turned up in southwestern Ontario.Constable Ed Sanchuk says drugs seized in…

A new Siena Poll addressing the state's opioid epidemic shows that 54 percent of New Yorkers are personally touched by opioid abuse.Director of the Siena…

Erie County's first prison sentence for an opiate-overdose death under District Attorney John Flynn was handed out Wednesday morning in county court. Jon…

A Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that took the life of two users. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Aaron McDuffie,…

Letting people get the medicine "without an individual prescription in 45 states is critical in combating this crisis," says the CEO of Narcan maker Adapt Pharma.