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Staff (2023) ~120 [1] Website. onpointnyc.org. OnPoint NYC is a New York City nonprofit that operates two privately run safe injection sites (also known as Overdose Prevention Centers) in East Harlem and Washington Heights. [2] Placed at the sites of existing syringe service programs, [3] these were America's first safe injection facilities ...
Daytop, or Daytop Village, or “Daytop Village New Jersey Inc.” is a drug addiction treatment organization with facilities in New York City and New Jersey.It was founded in 1963 [3] in Tottenville, Staten Island [4] by Daniel Harold Casriel along with Monsignor William B. O'Brien, a Roman Catholic priest and founder and president of the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities. [5]
The Bronx. North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City 's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island. North Brother Island was once the site of the Riverside Hospital for quarantinable diseases but is now uninhabited. [1] The islands had long been privately owned, but were purchased by the ...
The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257. In the past decade, Arizona’s heroin deaths rose by more than 90 percent. New York City had 420 heroin overdose deaths in 2013 — the most in a decade.
But just 31 percent of the 7,745 doctors in those areas are certified to treat the legal limit of 100 patients. Even in Vermont, where the governor in 2014 signed several bills adding $6.8 million in additional funding for medication-assisted treatment programs, only 28 percent or just 60 doctors are certified at the 100-patient level.
September 11, 2024 at 6:20 PM. NEW YORK - Residents living on Melrose Avenue in the Bronx are expressing their outrage over what they call an "open-air drug market" that has taken over part of the ...
Lincoln Detox was a drug detoxification clinic in Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. It was founded in 1970 by members and affiliates of the Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Afrika, the Young Lords, and Students for a Democratic Society. The clinic offered holistic drug rehabilitation, employing acupuncture, political education ...
New York City residents are calling on Mayor Eric Adams to address what they call an "open-air drug market" that has taken over one street in the Bronx. Part of Melrose Avenue near the subway ...