Terrell Jones, an OnPoint outreach team member, is using harm reduction to fight addiction in New York City. Employed by OnPoint, a New York City nonprofit that provides services for people who use drugs, outreach team members spend the bulk of their workdays looping through a patch of the city, col...
2021 was the deadliest year on record for drug deaths across the US and Canada, thanks to an ongoing overdose epidemic primarily fueled by fentanyl. In order to combat this crisis, governments are under pressure to act. In this episode of Free Drugs, Manisha Krishnan goes to New York City and Vancou...
New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE) and the Washington Heights Corner Project (WHCP) announced their merger and will continue their lifesaving harm reduction work as OnPoint NYC....
The nonprofit OnPoint NYC, which operates two overdose prevention sites in East Harlem and Washington Heights, announced 500 lives have been saved from overdose. CBS2's Jessi Mitchell got a first look at the new medical unit at the East Harlem site....
OnPoint NYC, the operator of the OPCs in Washington Heights and East Harlem, is grateful to The New York Community Trust and The New York Health Foundation for two significant funding awards....
In 2021, more than 107,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. This amounts to one overdose death every five minutes for a full year. The organization prevents drug-related deaths by providing safe spaces where people can use illegal drugs under staff supervision. New York is the first U.S. c...
As it marks its first 6 months of operations, OnPoint NYC, the operator of the nation’s first and only authorized supervised consumption centers, announces that it has averted 314 drug overdoses since opening on November 30, 2021....
Overdose prevention centers are designed to help curb the nation's drug epidemic, which has taken more than 100,000 lives in the past year. It gives addicts space to use illegal drugs safely with trained staff standing by to help if they overdose. The U.S. has two such centers, one of which is locat...
AJ doesn't know why he can't stop using drugs. He has serious health issues from reusing dirty needles and has been homeless more times than he can count. AJ has been in and out of detox and rehab multiple times. In 2021 alone, AJ says he was in treatment over ten times! It's for people like AJ w...
By the early 1970s, heroin was flooding the streets of New York City. Black and Puerto Rican neighbourhoods like Harlem and the South Bronx were hardest hit. This four part podcast series explores how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of the late Tupac Shakur, along with members of the Black Panther Par...
A step-by-step guide on how to smoke more safely, a public by OnPoint NYC. ...
The OnPoint NYC's Kit Packing Guide provides instructions on how to pack each of the harm reduction kits that we provide to participants. This guide is updated regularly to ensure that new kits and supplies are appropriately included....
“At OnPoint NYC (NYHRE+WHCP), people are received with love,” said Juan Cortez, our Holistic Health Services Manager. “Without love, there is no harm reduction. If you’re not seeing someone as a full human being, you’re not practicing harm reduction,” he said. Isabella*, a participant en...