Tag: OASAS

  • View the HNBA November Meeting

    View the HNBA November Meeting

    Our November 9th HNBA meeting is now available to view: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hw0239ynnvnoikt/HNBA%20Nov21.mp4?dl=0 Opioid Injection Site Opens on East 126th Street Mayor De Blasio promised to begin opening opioid injection sites where people can find a safe space to inject illegal drugs, and now his promise has been fulfilled in East Harlem. Corner Resources quietly opened a…

  • Community Districts

    East Harlem has many commonalities with the South Bronx in terms of population, history, infrastructure, and governmental relations. A map of the density of opioid treatment programs (as licensed by OASAS) shows the clear linkage. Note how CB11 (East Harlem) has the largest opioid capacity in New York City. OASAS has packed programs in East…

  • Mount Sinai and Methadone in Our Community

    With new data from a FOIL request to OASAS, we are able to contextualize the size/impact that Mount Sinai has on our community with their two major methadone hubs – West 124th Street, and East 125th Street (The Lee Building at Park Avenue). Looking at the screenshot below, you can see how large Mount Sinai’s…

  • Opioid Treatment Programs 2019/2020

    Our latest data from a 2019/2020 FOIL request to OASAS has yielded this map of the location of Opioid Treatment Programs in the 5 boroughs and their admission totals: Zooming into our neighborhood you can see how OASAS has oversaturated Harlem and East Harlem as well as the South Bronx: Franciscan Handmaids of Mary Motherhouse…

  • OASAS Refuses to Acknowledge Their Impact on Our Comunity

    A neighbor wrote to Governor Cuomo and OASAS recently, asking for them to address how the illegal drug trade (which congregates around the nexus of OASAS licensed addiction programs in our community) is impacted by OASAS decisionmaking. Zoraida Diaz (the OASAS NYC District Director) replied with a refusal to acknowledge the impact of decades of…

  • Where Do They Live?

    The oversaturation of substance use programs in Harlem and East Harlem has been proven repeatedly. Our community hosts many more programs than are justified by our population, by our addiction rates, or even by drug-related death rates. One question remains, where do patients who are admitted to New York City substance abuse programs come from?…

  • East Harlem is Overburdened with 14% of Drug Treatment Capacity in NYC

    East Harlem is Overburdened with 14% of Drug Treatment Capacity in NYC

    While East Harlem has 1.5% of New York City’s population, it has 13.6% of New York City’s drug treatment capacity, according to data as of 2019 from NY agency OASAS. The graphic below illustrates how severely East Harlem is oversaturated with drug treatment facilities. This unfair social injustice MUST END! With so many patients commuting…

  • New FOIL Data from OASAS

    In August I submitted a FOIL request to OASAS, the NYS agency that licenses every single addiction program in New York State (and who refuses to meet with HNBA, State Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez, or The Greater Harlem Coalition…) in order to discuss their decades-long practice of locating addiction programs in Black and Latinx majority…