04.28.2023 Editorials Editorial: Fentanyl-related arrests hark back to local horrors In August 2021, a scourge of overdoses traced to fentanyl-laced cocaine led to six deaths in Southold Town and Shelter Island. Four of them occurred on just one day....
03.08.2023 Health Narcan kits expanding throughout North Fork to combat drug overdoses A string of fatal drug overdoses in the summer of 2021 left the North Fork community with deep scars. Now, local organizations and businesses are working together to help...
02.15.2022 News Police say no opioids, fentanyl involved in unrelated cases involving high school students Opioids or fentanyl were not responsible for the suspected overdoses at Riverhead High School that resulted in two students receiving Narcan in a one-week span, according to Riverhead Town...
12.03.2021 News Federal grand jury indicts Riverside man for selling fentanyl-laced cocaine and heroin A previously convicted drug dealer twice sold cocaine laced with fentanyl near his home in Riverside in purchases made this fall as part of a joint investigation by federal...
07.22.2021 Government Overdose deaths down locally this year as numbers soared nationally in 2020 Opioid deaths in Southold and Riverhead towns from Jan. 1 to date amount to a number both towns’ police chiefs hope will stay the same in the coming weeks....
07.07.2021 Health New approach to opioid treatment as Quannacut joins national study Treatment for patients struggling with opioid addiction is often a multi-faceted approach. Medication can help ease the patient’s symptoms of withdrawal and cravings. And the counseling portion of treatment...
04.01.2021 COVID-19 During COVID, another crisis continued: opioids Over the past year, as the COVID-19 pandemic claimed lives and sent thousands to hospitals and into ICUs, another epidemic was also raging. Opioids. While experts say the opioid...
10.21.2020 Government DA: Suffolk County Legislator arrested for attempting to trade drugs for sex A Suffolk County Legislator was arrested Tuesday after he attempted to trade prescription opioids for sexual favors with an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute, Suffolk County District...
