Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a $12 million investment from opioid settlement funds to expand peer led recovery services across New York City and help create 500 new peer specialist jobs through community organizations.
#ZohranMamdani #NYC #Recovery #Opioids #PublicHealth The funding comes from settlements with opioid companies accused of marketing addictive painkillers as safe and non addictive...
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voteinorout on Instagram: "Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a $12 million investment from opioid settlement funds to expand peer led recovery services across New York City and help create 500 new peer specialist jobs through community organizations. #ZohranMamdani #NYC #Recovery #Opioids #PublicHealth The funding comes from settlements with opioid companies accused of marketing addictive painkillers as safe and non addictive. The investment will support outreach vans, recovery training, scholarships, and peer specialists with lived experience helping New Yorkers through addiction and overdose crises. Organizations receiving support include Phoenix House, Pillars, Fortune Society, Samaritan Daytop Village, Odyssey House, Exponents, and CHASI across all five boroughs.
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#Canada #Environment #Fentanyl #Opioids https://globalnews.ca/news/11808648/ontario-fish-fentanyl-opioids-traces/Traces of fentanyl, other drugs found in some Ontario fish, study shows
Researchers said while wastewater treatment plants do a good job at treating water, they were not designed to deal with the 'complexity' of compounds like fentanyl.
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