Overdose Prevention in New York City: Supervised Injection as a Strategy to Reduce Opioid Overdose and Public Injection

Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/public/supervised-injection-report.pdf

Posted 05/03/2018

Overdose deaths in New York City have risen steadily over the past 15 years, growing to the crisis we now face. In 2017, provisional data confirmed 1,441 overdose fatalities in New York City—the deadliest year on record. 1 Someone dies from a drug overdose in New York City every seven hours, and more people died from overdose in New York City in 2017 than from suicide, homicide, and motor vehicle accidents combined. 2 Since 2014, fentanyl, an opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, has driven the dramatic increase in overdose deaths.