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"I’m confident this is not one of these issues that will be in the partisan maw, we can get bipartisan support for it."
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The Southern Tier region will receive about $4.8 million from the settlement in 2022. The initial payout on Tuesday totaled about $759,000 for the region.
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Southern Tier advocates, elected officials react to supervised drug-injection sites in New York CitySome people in the Southern Tier say supervised drug-injection sites can save lives. Others say it enables drug use.
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New York's bail reform law does not allocate any additional funds for treatment centers and similar programs, which has been a bipartisan critique of the 2019 policy.
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"Some of these programs will be going on for years without the kind of review that they should be having."
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“Our numbers in person dwindled down to zero because we weren’t even in the building. But the reach that we made tripled.”
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“In my view, the county taxpayers shouldn’t foot a bill for a crisis that we didn’t create."
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Members of the Assembly held an hours-long meeting, speaking with stakeholders in the healthcare industry on what can be done to save the lives of people dealing with addiction and mental illness.
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"It just replays in the back of my mind, like, 'Hey, if I didn’t moved out I could have saved her.'"
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"We need to be ready, and this project is going to be an important tool that we have to address this crisis.”