Opioid overdose deaths have plummeted dramatically for addicts being treated in an experimental drug treatment program on Staten Island, a new study shows — and the program will expand in a bid to save more lives across the city to tame the fentanyl epidemic still ravaging New York and the nation.
Revolutionary NYC program for addicts has fatal overdoses plummeting
Politics
March 19, 2025
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