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.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.New York is one step closer this month to putting to use millions of dollars procured through legal settlements with pharmaceutical companies that have been accused of stoking the opioid crisis.for how to spend the money on Nov. 1.. About $129 million of that will be allocated through the state this fiscal year to address issues related to opioid use, which has driven record numbers of overdose deaths in recent years.
Pouches of confirmed fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019, in New York.Under the harm reduction category, the advisory board also specified that funding should go to, which allow people to use illicit drugs under staff supervision so they can intervene in the case of an overdose.
The New York State Harm Reduction Association, which represents organizations serving drug users, outlined their concerns in a letter to Hochul and state legislators last week. Right now, it’s an $8 million allocation without a lot of specificity about what it’s going to go towards.“Right now, it’s an $8 million allocation without a lot of specificity about what it’s going to go towards,” Stephanie Marquesano, founder and president of a Westchester organization called the Harris Project, said at the Board’s Oct. 31 meeting — the last time it convened before releasing the funding recommendations.
Staff stay nearby while a client uses drugs behind a privacy screen at the OnPoint NYC center in Harlem.“If that’s what [Hochul] is hiding behind [to avoid supporting overdose prevention centers], then something coming out of the Justice Department is going to take that justification away from her,” King said. Housing Works has been planning to open two overdose prevention centers in Manhattan, but King said the organization will not do so without public dollars.
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