https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/opinion-why-new-haven-needs-to-rethink-its-17823196.php It is not news that Connecticut faces an opioid epidemic. In 2021 alone, the state had more than 1,500 overdose deaths, more than 90 percent linked to opioids. This makes it more likely to die from opioids than a car accident. Our state’s rate of overdose is more than Read more…
Our state needs to reconcile with the uncoordinated and poorly planned response to the opioid crisis. This is most evident in New Haven, where we have a major methadone clinic with documented incidents of nearby drug dealing and violence 330 feet from an elementary and middle school. Kids walking to Read more…
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic. One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he Read more…
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/goldenberg-new-haven-s-congress-ave-methadone-17825276.php.html NEW HAVEN — The APT Foundation’s Congress Avenue methadone clinic, across the street from a city school, is “in an inappropriate place” and should be shut down immediately, according to Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg. “This is an inappropriate place — right next to a school in a residential Read more…