Philadelphia will receive around $200 million over an 18-year span to fight the city’s opioid crisis, Mayor Jim Kenney announced Thursday. MiguelMValle breaks down how the money will be spent:
“These investments have been informed and guided by the insight and collaboration generously offered by community leaders,” Mayor Jim Kenney said. “The overdose crisis has wrought incalculable harm on communities across the United States, and the grief and community trauma have compounded for years in Philadelphia as well – especially in Kensington and the surrounding neighborhoods.
“There’s a lot of them that don’t have transportation or means to get into a place,” Eneida Fuentes, a health worker withPhiladelphia recorded 1,276 unintentional overdose deaths in 2021, the highest annual rate of overdose fatalities in the city’s history, according to the mayor’s office. “The isolation and stress of the pandemic and the growing presence of fentanyl in opioids and other drugs have led to an overall increase in unintentional drug overdose deaths, as well as a very troubling increase in overdoses among Black and Hispanic/Latino/a Philadelphians,” Noelle Foizen, Director of the City of Philadelphia’s Overdose Response Unit, said.
“We need more community. We need more developing. We need jobs. We need revenue back down here,” Patrice Rogers, a community organizer, told NBC10.
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