Fatal overdose leads to four arrests in Red Hook
This investigation was initiated by two drug overdoses on April 21 in the Town of Red Hook, one of which resulted in a fatality.
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Saugerties holds overdose prevention training Feb. 26
Saugerties Police will distribute overdose prevention kits and teach attendees how to use them Feb. 26 at the Senior Center, 207 Market St., from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Woodstocker Arya Nielsen help effect shift away from opioids
Using acupuncture instead of narcotics.
The landscape of despair
The Catskills mark the northern edge of Appalachia, a region with a 37 percent higher mortality rate for “diseases of despair”—suicide, alcohol and drug overdose—than the rest of the country.
Woodstock Outreach Program offers help to addicts
Nearly a year after it was announced, Woodstock’s program to help people overcome substance abuse has helped pave the road to recovery in place of a life of arrests and incarceration.
Statistics shed light on opioid OD’s but aren’t complete
A new report attempts to provide a snapshot of Ulster County’s raging heroin epidemic. But law enforcement officials conceded this week that collecting data remains a work in progress and the report likely undercounts the true toll of opioid abuse in the region.
Ulster County 2016 drug overdoses, by town and gender
Stats provided by the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team show 134 total overdoses last year: 26 fatal and 108 non-fatal.
Saugerties police save local woman from overdose
For the second time in just over a week, Saugerties Police called to respond to a report of an unconscious local resident likely saved a life.
Saugerties Police save man from overdose in diner parking lot
Saugerties Police revived a 37-year-old Saugerties man this morning, likely saving his life.
Hugh Reynolds: Blowin’ in the wind
Ulster County DA Holley Carnright quoted Dylan to the legislature as he pled for resources to battle the heroin epidemic. “How many deaths will it take ’til he knows that too many people have died?”