Sixty Years Fighting Narcotics Abuse

Sixty Years Fighting Narcotics Abuse

To the Editor, Almost 60 years ago, I was appointed to the newly created Orangetown Narcotics Council to help address the heroin crisis in Rockland County. 60 years later, we have an Opiate Crisis and it’s the same vis a vis addiction and death, but also very different . This time the threat to lives […]

Rockland peers into the opioid abyss

Rockland peers into the opioid abyss

January 25 seminar brings community leaders, health experts and addicts together OP-ED BY OLEG KHAGHANI In Rockland County there were 35 deaths from an Opioid overdose in 2016, which is an 875 percent increase in the last decade according to statistics kept by the NY State Department of Health, and these numbers continue to climb […]