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Staten Island has a drug problem. Opioid overdose deaths in the New York City borough are 170 percent higher than the national average. While fentanyl is responsible for the majority of deaths, it’s not the only substance to blame. Overprescribing opioids has...

A number of pharmaceutical companies in the US have been forced to settle claims related to a deadly opioid epidemic. Experts have linked the crisis to prescription practices in the country. In the second of this two-part series, William Denselow looks at efforts to...

"In seven short years, this integrated healthcare network has completely redefined how the borough’s healthcare delivery system views population health, and impacted tens of thousands of lives and according to its executive director, the work has only just begun."...

Sal Volpe & Joseph Conte Journal of Substance Use, Published online: 28 Dec 2021 Abstract: Substance use disorder (SUD) is a multifactorial issue that leads to over 67,000 overdose deaths annually, with the most recent data identifying 98,000 deaths in 2020 according...

Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone Announce Plans to Explore the Adoption of this Innovative Program in Their Jurisdictions Staten Island, NY, NOVEMBER [10], 2021 - In the face of an unprecedented 50% increase in overdose...

On Wednesday, November 3rd from 12:00-4:00pm in the Persimmon Room at the Hilton Garden Inn, Staten Island PPS hosted the 2022 Behavioral Health Planning Symposium. It was an in-person, behavioral health planning session in which current trends and challenges were...