Security guards have confiscated naloxone from bar and nightclub goers, even though city officials encourage people to carry the drug to save lives.
Tag: OnPoint NYC (Nonprofit)
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A Day Care Death and the Dilemma Over How to Crack Down on Drugs
Fentanyl use is increasingly out in the open, and increasingly fatal. But New Yorkers are divided over what to do: decriminalize it or make more arrests.
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NY’s Safe Injection Site, OnPoint, Stays Open After Legal Threat
Bryan Ortiz quit a job as a paramedic to help people at a safe injection site for drugs like fentanyl and heroin. Now, his job is under legal threat.
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NYC Nonprofit’s Method of Stopping Drug Overdoses Faces Legal Scrutiny
A nonprofit said it had stopped 1,000 overdoses. A federal law enforcement official said he was eyeing its methods, which are against the law.