opioid crisis

The Divino Niño Day Care is closed but the underlying fentanyl crisis that killed a baby boy there last year has not abated.

Overdose deaths did not increase quite as sharply in 2022 as in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the figures still show the overdose crisis is taking the greatest toll on Black New Yorkers and residents of high-poverty neighborhoods.

The nonprofit St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction wants to open the borough's first safe injection site, which could save lives. The plan is now delayed due to a lack of public funding and community buy-in.

The NYC health commissioner explains how City Hall plans to support supervised injection sites and other portions of a new initiative to reduce overdose deaths 15% by 2025.

NYC is rolling out a new program to curtail overdoses by making Narcan kits more accessible across the nightlife scene.

In 2021, 2,668 people died as a result of drug overdoses, the most since New York City began tracking overdose deaths in 2000.

The city’s program uses scanners that you’d typically find in a graduate school chemistry labs, allowing them to detect fentanyl or other dangerous substances in the drug supply.

In the past, Gov. Kathy Hochul has refrained from explicitly denying her support for these types of programs, which are also known informally as safe injection sites.

State Attorney General Letitia James announced the settlement Tuesday

In its initial funding recommendations, the New York State Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board set aside $8 million for an organization whose founder sits on the board.