What happened? On July 18th, Healing Cortland's Opioid Task Force met for its first full meeting, kicking off the "implementation phase" of the HEALing Communities Study (HCS). Over the course of the next 18 months, the Opioid Task Force will look...

The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released recent data that more than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020.That's a 29.4% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected for 2019. As in recent years, opioid use was...

At Healing Cortland, we have a pretty straight-forward goal – reduce the number of opioid-related overdoses in Cortland County by 40% over the next three years. While that goal is clear, the way in which we and the broader...

The Healing Cortland initiative is concerned by the increasing number of opioid-related deaths throughout our community and the country. Cortland County appears to be experiencing an increase in overdose deaths based on preliminary data shared by the Cortland County’s...