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This Brooklyn Program Is Tackling the Opioid Epidemic ‘After Hours’

This Brooklyn Program Is Tackling the Opioid Epidemic ‘After Hours’

AHP is a syringe exchange program, a social and mental health services provider, an opioid use disorder treatment facility, and about a dozen other things that would be impressive on their own.

Cops Talk About Rising Fentanyl Epidemic During Precinct Council Meeting in Ridgewood

Cops Talk About Rising Fentanyl Epidemic During Precinct Council Meeting in Ridgewood

Ridgewood police officers talk about the rising overdose rate due to heroin cut with fentanyl, a powerful opiate lethal in small doses.

Officials Busted a Heroin Gang With Ties to Bushwick, Seizing Huge Amounts of Drugs and Luxury Cars

Officials Busted a Heroin Gang With Ties to Bushwick, Seizing Huge Amounts of Drugs and Luxury Cars

Oh, the lavish lives of Brooklyn drug lords…

No K2! Bushwick Community and Business Owners Join the Doe Fund March Against the Drug

No K2! Bushwick Community and Business Owners Join the Doe Fund March Against the Drug

The Doe Fund marched against K2 on Tuesday afternoon, making it their second public demonstration against the highly addictive drug.

Thirty-three K2 Users Were Hospitalized by a “Bad Batch” of the Street Drug At Myrtle Broadway

Thirty-three K2 Users Were Hospitalized by a “Bad Batch” of the Street Drug At Myrtle Broadway

The affected individuals were hallucinating, vomiting and passed out along sidewalks beneath the JMZ.

The City’s First Campaign on Overdose Prevention Kicks Off at House of Yes in Bushwick

The City’s First Campaign on Overdose Prevention Kicks Off at House of Yes in Bushwick

A ’90s Graffiti Artist Reflects on Bushwick: Adam Maldonado, Then And Now

A ’90s Graffiti Artist Reflects on Bushwick: Adam Maldonado, Then And Now

Adam Maldonado is a 52-year-old Bushwick native and a graffiti artist since he was a teenager.

Join the Doe Fund Tuesday for a Community March Against K2

Join the Doe Fund Tuesday for a Community March Against K2

“There was no help for New York’s poorest neighborhoods during the crack epidemic in the 1980s. That is no longer the case,” said a Doe Fund spokesperson.