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GOTHAM GAZETTE: What Wasn’t in Hochul’s 2023 State of the State Agenda:

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“The Governor’s answer to the worst overdose crisis in New York’s history is to increase penalties for fentanyl and drug-induced homicide laws that only advance the War on Drugs, rather than the fight to save lives,” said Jawanza Williams, director of organizing for VOCAL-NY, an advocacy group. “Most egregious of all: Hochul’s complete omission of […]

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TIMES UNION: Cautious policies for opioid crisis miss the mark, advocates say:

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Jasmine Budnella, the director of policy for VOCAL-NY, a drug-user advocacy group, applauded the investment in drug-checking technology and pointed to its pilot use at New York City’s two safe injection sites, also referred to as overdose prevention centers, where staff have been utilizing drug-checking technology to screen users’ samples.  Advocates are still disappointed in

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VOCAL-NY Slams Gov. Hochul After NYC 2021 Overdose Data Released

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CONTACT: Jasmine Budnella, jasmine@vocal-ny.org//Mariah McGough, mariah@vocal-ny.org VOCAL-NY SLAMS GOV. HOCHUL AFTER NYC 2021 OVERDOSE DATA RELEASED Governor Hochul Recently Rejected the Opioid Settlement Board’s Recommendation to Use Settlement Funds to Keep Overdose Prevention Centers Running NEW YORK — After calling on Mayor Adams and DOHMH Commissioner Vasan to release finalized 2021 overdose data, new data was released yesterday illustrating significant increases in preventable overdoses.

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CITY & STATE: Will hochul come around on supervised injection sites?:

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Last year, a state panel tasked with determining how to spend over $2 billion in settlement funds from drug companies that had a role in the addiction crisis recommended that some of that money should fund the supervised injection sites. But the governor’s administration rejected that proposal. State Office of Addiction Services and Support Commissioner Chinazo

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PATCH: NYC Stalls Vital OD Data, Puts Safe Injection Sites At Risk:

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NEW YORK CITY — The true scope of New York City’s fatal overdose problem for the past two years remains unknown because city officials have dragged their feet on the literal life-and-death data, advocates charged. The city needs to release fatal overdose numbers from three months of 2021 and all of 2022, advocates with VOCAL-NY

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Missing Data: VOCAL-NY Calls on Mayor Adams & DOHMH Commissioner Vasan to Release Overdose Data

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Contact: Jasmine Budnella, Jasmine@vocal-ny.org MISSING DATA: VOCAL-NY CALLS ON MAYOR ADAMS & DOHMH COMMISSIONER VASAN TO RELEASE OVERDOSE DATA NEW YORK — In response to news that New York City’s Overdose Prevention Centers will run out of funding by February, and  Mayor Adams and DOHMH Commissioner Vasan withholding 2021 finalized overdose data detailing the fatal

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New york daily news: No Harm done: overdose prevention centers must stay open

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Just over a year after New York City led the nation in establishing two overdose prevention centers to serve people at risk of falling to a continuing epidemic of opioid abuse, not only have no additional facilities opened, the existing ones are now at risk of closing. The centers, run by nonprofit OnPoint, could run out

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