New York City wants to have five new ‘safe injection’ sites by 2025

last month that found 2,668 overdose deaths in 2021, compared with 2,103 in 2020. Fentanyl was found in 80 percent of drug overdose deaths in the Big Apple in 2021.The sites have drawn ire from local officials – including Staten Island’s Democratic District Attorney Michael McMahon – who argue the locations harm addicts rather than promote recovery.

“Staten Island is having a real overdose problem. And so we are going to sit down with the DA. I think DA McMahon is an excellent district attorney. We’re going to sit down. We are going to show them the numbers,” said Adams. City Hall will also add a new telehealth and suicide prevention program for high schoolers and expand a program that adds more medical professionals to respond to mental health-related emergency calls.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Why not 50?

Also, open a few crack smoking dens. That's what NYC needs.

How about Gracie Mansion for the next site? NYCMayor PhotoOpEric is a worthless resident there anyway. How about housing the illegals there too, let them use his fleet of SUV's driven by NYPD detail! This 'mayor' is a plunger faced disgrace. NYCisAShithole

Progressives heart is in the right place but letting someone wallow in a drugged induced hell is not compassion. Lock their ass us with some tough love is real compassion

Make rehab sites instead

At some point a choice must be msde! Injection city, or Sanctuary?

So instead of stopping hard drugs we are no encouraging addiction

Tax payer dollars well wasted

Should say that it further destroys lives. Sad that a dump of a city wants to become even more so. 😔

Yeah, right because this idea worked so well for Oregon! 🙄

yaaaaaasssss ..u go NYCMayor . U r unstoppable!!

There is no SAFE INJECTION OF DOPE

That sign on the wall there, “THIS SITE SAVES LIVES” reminds me of the Ministry of Truth’s slogan from 1984: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 💀

Any medical professional who would participate in something like this should have their license taken away.

Despicable 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

No.

That’s going to end well!🤣🤣🤣

It’s Health Care! Just for junkies!

That's like telling a drunk they can drive, but you get to be the passenger. It will end badly, much like it has in San Fran.

Gross

Or, make it illegal and get that crap off the streets

Doctor standing over his shoulder, “or yea, u got a good vein there”

🖕 that noise!

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