Politico June 14, 2024
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To better help people with substance use disorder, care workers need more precise demographics than what they get now, says Alexis Del Rio, lead educator for Bronx Móvil, a harm-reduction program in New York City. He’s asking the state’s regulators to share data that provides more details about who experiences drug overdoses in the city so organizations like his can better target resources to help them.
“We don’t know where the latest crisis of overdoses happened [each] week,” said Del Rio at a panel discussion on harm reduction at the City University of New York School of Public Health.
He wants the state to disaggregate its data so health workers can identify emerging overdose trends among certain ethnic groups...
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