“Every four hours a New Yorker dies of an overdose in New York City.”
“We are in the midst of a five-alarm public health fire that few are talking about because of the other pressing public health challenge we’ve been facing over the past two years,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said at the press conference.
About 10 months have passed since former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law requiring all the settlement money to be placed into a statewide Opioid Settlement Fund and establishing an Opioid Settlement Board to determine how it will be used. Still, officials did offer some ideas for how the money could be used. Dr. Machelle Allen, chief medical officer at NYC Health + Hospitals, said the public health care network is working on a new, family-centered approach to addressing substance use that involves timely interventions.
Officials also talked about the need to expand access to medication for those with opioid use disorder as well as the use of peer counselors who have their own experience with substance use to engage patients throughout the NYC Health + Hospitals system.
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