How Southwest Brooklyn is combating the opioid epidemic
As the nation’s opioid epidemic deepens, Southwest Brooklyn’s elected officials and civic leaders are grappling with the health crisis by coming up with ideas on how to confront the growing problem.
In Bay Ridge, which has a drug treatment program that was started by Community Board 10 member Donna Mae DePola in 2014, opioids are a big topic of discussion, especially in political circles.
State Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-Southwest Brooklyn), lawyer Andrew Gounardes and journalist Ross Barkan have all spoken out in recent weeks on the issue. Gounardes and Barkan are facing each other in a Democratic primary for the right to run against Golden in November.