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Why are NY lawmakers stopping first responders from fighting fentanyl?
Opinion by Post Editorial Board • 11h


NYC’s latest advice to combat fentanyl crisis is for everyone to carry Narcan: ‘A wave of the white flag’
 
Good news: Fentanyl overdose “revival” drugs are saving lives across the country.

Bad news: Opioid-related OD deaths are soaring in New York (from 18 in 1999 to 4,950 in 2022) and it often takes four or five doses of Narcan to revive fentanyl victims — yet the state refuses to get behind better, fentanyl-specific drugs.

Why? Policy is dominated not by true public-health specialists, but by harm-reduction ideologues who worry that the other “rescue” drugs have unpleasant side effects for heroine addicts.

Seriously.

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