FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cortland, NY — The Cortland County Drug Disposal Program, a collaboration between Cortland Prevention Resources, the Rural Health Institute of NY, local law enforcement, and other community partners and volunteers, announces that the Spring 2024 Drug Take...

What happened and what did we accomplish? At the start of 2023, we told you about our action planning process. We spent most of 2022 building a coalition to look at local data, identify gaps, set data-driven SMART goals, and...

We are excited to announce the opening reception of the Portraits Exhibit, “We Are All in This Together: Stories of Hope and Recovery.” Join Healing Cortland, the Cortland Area Recovery Project and documentary photographer Zack Bolton for the opening...

The Fall 2023 Cortland County Drug Take Back Event, held on Saturday, September 30, 2023, was an important step towards building safer communities. This event allowed citizens to responsibly dispose of prescription medications that had been dormant in their...

Leading up to every Halloween, we see a spike in worries around children’s safety. There are some very real safety concerns, but the biggest worry for most parents should be cars. On Halloween, children are more than twice as...

As part of the HEAling Communities Study, we have funding to run three communications campaigns--one focused on naloxone/Narcan, and two focused on medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Opioid use disorder is a medical condition characterized by an inability to...

When the HEALing Communities Study project kicked off in May 2020, it coincided with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since in person meetings were not an options, project staff instead met one on one with over 40 stakeholders...

On Wednesday, August 30th, we held a press conference outside the Truxton Fire Station to announce and celebrate the installation of Cortland's first rural public access Narcan box. Funded by the HEALing Communities Study and Healing Cortland Project, this...

The Fall 2023 Cortland County Drug Take Back Event will be on Saturday, September 30 at 4 locations. Bring any of your unused, unneeded, prescription, and/or nonprescription drugs and you can drop them off without leaving your vehicle. The 4 convenient...

The Truxton Town Fire Department will soon have an N-POD–a Narcan Point of Distribution–in front of its station. Quick and easy access to this life-saving medication when someone is overdosing from an opioid is crucial. To expand public access in a life-threatening...