The pernicious legacy of redlining continues. Medical or Drug Treatment Redlining persists and inhibits New York City’s communities of color. The visualization below illustrates how…
Large methadone centers correlate with overdose deaths. While large methadone mega centers may have been sited in response to a density of drug use and/or…
Maya Kaufman Crains Business Health care reporter, has written an examination of how 20 full-service hospitals have closed across the city in the last 25 years. Closures…
The percentage of single adults sheltered in New York City’s shelters increases. The City is reporting that about 45,300 people sleep in city shelters, including…
East Harlem is the most shelter-overburdened neighborhood in all of New York City. In addition to experiencing and struggling with the community-wide impact of below-average…
Harlem and East Harlem have been packed with opioid treatment program capacity that exceeds Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, by providers and @NYSOASAS.
Harlem and East Harlem residents make up nearly 8% of the total patients in OASAS’s Opioid Treatment Programs. A #FairShare4Harlem allocation of facilities in our…
“More people have died from overdoses in this country in the last two decades than the combined number of Americans who have died in combat…
New York City is not just a major culinary, entertainment, and business hub, it is also an opioid treatment program hub. Every day, opioid treatment…
The Troubled History of New York’s Methadone Clinics Yale University’s Medical School student, Zoe Adams, has written a fascinating article on the history of methadone…