Tag: Oversaturation

  • Opioid Treatment Deserts

    With new data from a recent FOIL request that was submitted to the NYS Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) we wanted to map the inverse of what people typically map – the absence of something. In particular, we were interested in learning which Community Districts in New York don’t have any OASAS…

  • A Call for LegislationThe Bronx is Building

    The Greater Harlem Coalition has recently written to our elected officials to ask them to begin the work of enacting legislation that will stop and then reverse the oversaturation of drug treatment programs in our community: The Bronx is Building A new rental building has been proposed for the Bronx waterfront between the Madison Avenue…

  • CBS News Coverage of Oversaturation and the Explosion of Illegal Drug Dealing in Our Community

    CBS News had a great piece last night on how Harlem and East Harlem are oversaturated with substance abuse programs which has attracted unprecedented numbers of illegal drug sellers who prey on the men and women seeking treatment. Harlem residents showed the CBS reporter evidence of illegal drug sales and use – all concentrated around…

  • 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…

  • CB11 Full Board Meeting

    Tonight CB11 will have a full board meeting and discuss budget priorities.  Harlem Neighborhood Block Association is asking for two things to be highlighted in the budgetary report including: We are requesting a City Council analysis of the distribution of addiction programs throughout the five boroughs, with a mandate to recommend how the rebalancing of…