As the eyes of the nation turn to a troubling wave of opioid addiction in rural and suburban communities, residents of the South Bronx are asking what took them so long to realize that there’s a crisis going on.
On one hand, residents here have long complained about sharing their streets with drug users who frequent the profusion of methadone clinics and “transitional” apartments in the neighborhood. They argue that the area stretching from the Grand Concourse east to Hunts Point has far more than its fair share of social services for the city’s most transient.
Mott Haven faces surge in overdoses
- COUNSELORS BATTLE SOCIAL MISCONCEPTIONS IN TREATING DRUG ABUSERS
- GENESIS OF BRONX HARM REDUCTION: THE CHURCH
- AN ANTIDOTE IN HEAVY DEMAND
- HEROIN TAKES A HEAVY TOLL LOCALLY
- THE LADY OF ST. MARY’S
- CLINIC PREPARES PUBLIC FOR FIGHT AGAINST OVERDOSES
- UNINSURED DRUG USERS FACE UPHILL BATTLE
- NYPD LOOKS TO CONTAIN A SPRAWLING CRISIS
About Post Author
