30 Issues in 30 Days: NYC's Overdose Prevention Centers
29 October 2025

30 Issues in 30 Days: NYC's Overdose Prevention Centers

The Brian Lehrer Show

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Ethan Geringer-Sameth, discusses the mayoral candidates' stances on overdose prevention centers in New York City, including Zohran Mamdani's reversal of his longstanding stance to increase the centers, Andrew Cuomo's stance to keep existing centers but not expand them and Curtis Sliwa's stance against the existing centers. Plus, Sam Rivera, executive director of OnPoint NYC, talks about the two overdose prevention centers that OnPoint runs, in East Harlem and Washington Heights.