OPINION: Feds and state must use every weapon in fighting opioid addiction
A new measure signed into law last week will expand funding for fighting the state’s deadly opioid epidemic by focusing on opioid users caught up in the criminal justice system.
This hits close to home. A chart prepared in May by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows that Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx lead the way in opioid overdose deaths.