Fentanyl was involved in more than two-thirds of the 1, unintentional drug overdose deaths recorded in New York City in , according to city data.
But Nolan explains that cocaine users are more vulnerable to overdosing on fentanyl because they are less likely to be aware of how to prevent opioid overdoses and have not built up the same tolerance for opioids as heroin users. Overdose data compiled by the city and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reflect a rising risk faced by people who do coke. Both convey that overdose deaths from cocaine had been flat in New York City since —but then began to mount in While cocaine overdoses are rising in five boroughs, nationwide rates are flat, according to the CDC numbers.
However, total opioid and synthetic opioid overdoses are rising in New York City and nationwide. They said after doing cocaine, the person had been found dead by his partner in their home early last Sunday morning.
Lauren Flax, a DJ based in Brooklyn, said coke and ketamine are popular among those in the nightlife scene she inhabits. Her concern about the drugs being laced with fentanyl led her to begin offering training on how to use naloxone in at the Lot Radio, an internet radio station based in Williamsburg. She later moved the sessions to the Ridgewood club Nowadays so that more people could attend. To provide the training, Flax partners with the local chapter of the Black Nurses Association, which is registered as an Opioid Overdose Prevention Program and gets free naloxone kits from the Health Department to hand out to participants.
The pandemic slowed down the effort, but Flax said she is reviving the cause in light of recent reports of overdoses. She said she is also hoping to get test strips to hand out that people can use to see if their drugs contain fentanyl. City health officials have tried in recent years to spread the word about fentanyl among those who use cocaine.
In , they began distributing informational posters and other harm reduction materials to bars on the Lower East Side and later expanded to Williamsburg and Bushwick. The idea is to reach people from different parts of the city who flock to these nightlife hubs, said Nolan. Two cops stood on Eighth Avenue between 35th and 36th, leaning up against a police van while staring into their phones, as illicit activities swirled around them. Under state law, possessing needles or small amounts of heroin, or injecting drugs, are non-bail offenses.
So even if arrested, addicts are usually right back on the street and unlikely to face prosecution. Gomez says cops face needless personal risks, too, without the support of political leaders.
These risks include the threat of being stabbed by emotionally disturbed, needle-wielding junkies, possibly infected with HIV, and the fact that NYC this year became the first municipality in the nation to end qualified immunity for cops.
In the Midtown South Precinct, which covers the drug-ravaged area, crime is up 42 percent this year through Sept. The crime wave includes a shocking rise in gun violence.
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