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☆ Safe Injection Sites Don’t Lead to More Crime, New Study Finds - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Maia Szalavitz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Over 100,000 Americans now die from drug overdoses annually. Upon taking office, Mayor Eric Adams, Mr. de Blasio’s successor, has continued to support the sites’ work. Some neighbors, politicians and media have claimed that the centers — one in East Harlem and one in Washington Heights — are increasing crime and public drug use in neighborhoods already burdened with poverty. But an important new study published this week refutes these claims. It shows that violent and property crime rates near the two overdose prevention centers (sometimes referred to as safe injection or safe consumption sites) did not increase any more than crime in similar neighborhoods elsewhere in the city.
Persons: Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, de Blasio’s, ”, Brandon Del Pozo Organizations: Brown University, New York Police Department Locations: New York City, East Harlem, Washington Heights, Burlington , Vt
☆ His Job Helping Drug Users Is Illegal. He Says He Does It to Save Lives.
  + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Sharon Otterman | More About Sharon Otterman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On the blocks around OnPoint at Park Avenue and 126th Street, a concentration of drug treatment programs, drug users and drug dealers lead to use that can be remarkably out in the open. While OnPoint didn’t bring the drug activity to the block, some insist it has made things worse. “So would you rather it be here or somewhere else?”This is how Mr. Ortiz sees his job. He does it, he said, because he still remembers a day during EMT training when his ambulance got a call about an overdose in Central Park. An exact location wasn’t provided, making the response difficult, and when the ambulance arrived at the park, none of the workers got out to begin the search.
Persons: OnPoint didn’t, you’re, ” Ms, Baker, “ We’re, ”, Ann, Ortiz Locations: OnPoint, Central Park
☆ New York City Sanctioned Drug-Use Sites Reach a Crossroads
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Sam Rivera | Executive Director | Onpoint Nyc | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Some community leaders in New York resisted OnPoint’s safe-use sites. Syderia Asberry, a founder of the nonprofit Greater Harlem Coalition, spent three years fighting against what she called the over saturation of treatment centers and shelters in Harlem. She said safe-use sites represent an acceptance of drug use as a way of life.
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