Sam Rivera was named as a winner for The David Prize, which celebrates New Yorkers with big ideas for extraordinary change. Their work ranges from supporting sex workers, building new approaches to care for New Yorkers who use drugs, diversifying law schools, pushing the bounds of where restorative ...
“I just feel like I’m helping everyone,” said Bryan Ortiz, our staff member. “Some are in treatment, some have been to detox 10 times and come back. But we know that on the road to recovery, there’s going to be falls and scrapes," he said. In the New York Times, read how our OPCs are savin...
In mid-July, Tony Duffin, CEO of Ana Liffey Drug Project, visited the Overdose Prevention Centres in East Harlem and Washington Heights… here he says Europe should take inspiration from their recent response to street-based drug use and their attempts to reduce drug-related deaths....
Some elected officials have congratulated the operator of the two safe drug injection sites in New York City — the only publicly sanctioned sites in the country — for preventing more than 1,000 overdoses. The state legislators have also introduced a new bill to legally protect the overdose preve...
A warning by New York’s top federal prosecutor that the US Department of Justice may seek to close two supervised drug consumption sites in upper Manhattan has been condemned by activists looking for solutions to the country’s devastating opioid epidemic....
OnPoint NYC, the operator of the nation’s first supervised consumption centers, announces that it has averted 1,008 drug overdoses since launching its authorized OPC program on November 30, 2021. The nonprofit, which runs two harm reduction programs in northern Manhattan, provides life-saving serv...
Two sites in New York have saved hundreds of lives, but stigma and lack of buy-in from the governor might prevent expansion....
Noticiero Científico y Cultural Iberoamericano reconoce nuestro espacio de consumo controlado de drogas, que ha recibido a 3,500 personas para dosis seguras en 75,000 ocasiones con más de 900 intervenciones en sobredosis. El 87% de participantes ha buscado otros servicios de vivienda y salud. ...
Because more New Yorkers die of drug overdoses than homicides, suicides, and motor-vehicle crashes combined—an average of one death every four hours—NYCT supported the development of the nation’s first overdose prevention centers in East Harlem and Washington Heights....
When I was introduced to OnPoint NYC’s East Harlem center. I knew nothing about harm reduction or overdose prevention, but I immediately saw that just by providing a space to safely use drugs and be saved from a fatal overdose, OnPoint was solving what I thought was unsolvable....
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....
With 18 New Yorkers lost to overdose deaths each day, something needs to change. New York needs to divest from harmful systems and invest in what works - harm reduction, social services, and care. ...
“Everything I do on a daily basis is rewarding in some way, but there is nothing like knowing you helped someone to actually LIVE ANOTHER DAY,” says Jason Rice, a member of our Outreach team.. We recently spoke to Jason about his community work....
“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...