The crisis should command more of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s attention, advocates said, as a commission assesses how to use $80 million in opioid settlement money.
People who have used opioids and their advocates sounded off on city officials in meetings this week for failing to slow the number of opioid overdose deaths rocking the nation’s capital, which far exceed a homicide toll that has commanded public attention.
Under pointed questioning Thursday from council member Christina Henderson , chair of the health committee, the head of the city’s lead opioid response agency declined to say that there was an emergency or even a crisis in the District, where 461 people, most of them older Black men, died of opioid overdoses last year.“The administration is certainly willing to have the conversation,” said Barbara J. Bazron, director of D.C.’s Department of Behavioral Health.
Asiyah Timimi, director and founder of a life skills program in schools, R.O.C.K. Now, said she asks students who show up high how using drugs will help them further their goals, like finding jobs.to seeing their families, their friends, loved ones they grew up with since the cradle murdered in front of them. We have a lot of trauma in the streets; they are indulging because of that,” she said. “This is how they are pacifying their pain.
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