Housingworks is lobbying the city for their own safe injection sites. They already operate homeless shelters, distribute syringes, and sell marijuana.
If they are successful, they will have to open up more homeless shelters for the people they help keep addicted to fentanyl.
@JCAndersonNYC It's perfect, if you want drug dealers openly selling on your sidewalks and don't object to children to threading through people with syringes sticking out of their arms. We have a site in our neighborhood (East Harlem) - our kids call them porcupines.
After years of advocacy to raise concerns of the excessive density of drug treatment programs in Harlem, we are glad to reach an key milestone - a public acknowledgment of the issue of structural racism by the Governor @GovKathyHochul. Thank you @RepEspaillat for your leadership
@GreaterHarlem@GovKathyHochul@RepEspaillat All neighborhoods need addiction treatment programs. Addiction affects us all. Let's get treatment and recovery facilities in all New York City Council districts. Please support @LindaBRosenthal in getting more addiction programs and supervised injection sites in her district
@NycPatrickhart@NYDailyNews@_OnPointNYC Having this site in my backyard has indeed caused public safety issue as it attracts drug users and dealers. NYC should either have no such site at all or one in every 59 district. Otherwise such site serves to perpetuate structural racism.
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